Her name is Viola Desmond. Never heard of her ... Desmond appealed and her case was heard by Nova Scotia’s Supreme Court. But it was dismissed on a technicality. Desmond’s stand would soon ...

Despite the court’s decision ... seat for a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala., Canada’s Viola Desmond, a black businesswoman, defied an order to leave a whites-only section ...

And this month, that woman, Viola Desmond, became the first black person ... That effort went all the way to Nova Scotia’s Supreme Court – and failed. But it in turn fired up the province ...

Viola Desmond, a Black woman, defiantly sat in the whites-only section of a Nova Scotia cinema in November of 1946. She was sent to jail over it, and went on to fight the charge in court.

Viola Desmond was born on July 6 ... Desmond found a lawyer and appealed, but the Supreme Court refused to hear her case on the grounds that it wasn’t a racial justice issue.

Viola Desmond was a successful black businesswoman who was jailed, convicted and fined for defiantly refusing to leave a whites-only area of a movie theatre in 1946. Her court case was an inspiration ...

I found Viola Desmond was the first woman whose case was ... Q: What was her experience in court the next day? A: Nobody told her she could hire a lawyer, and you can imagine her complete ...

The Canadian government announced that civil rights activist Viola Desmond will become the first ... but it never made it to court. Sadly, she passed away in 1965 at the age of 50.

The recently formed Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Coloured People took up the cause, a Viola Desmond Court Fund was set up and her case was brought before Nova Scotia’s Supreme ...

And this month, that woman, Viola Desmond, became the first black person ... That effort went all the way to Nova Scotia’s Supreme Court – and failed. But it in turn fired up the province ...