What are the similarities and differences between Rosa Parks and Viola Desmond?
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In 1946 she challenged racial segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia by refusing to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre. ... Desmond's case is one of the most publicized incidents of racial discrimination in Canadian history and helped start the modern civil rights movement in Canada.
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certainly do not," says Tony Ince, minister for African Nova Scotian Affairs.
"Why is it that we refer to Viola as Canada's Rosa Parks, given the fact that she had stood up for this social injustice nine years before Rosa Parks had stood up on the bus?"
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The fact that many more Canadians know about Parks than Desmond shows how overlooked African Canadians have been in the history books, he says. "We've got a number of people in this country who have been trailblazers and we need to look at that history in its entirety."
In 1946, Desmond refused to leave a section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, N.S., that was implicitly for whites only. She was dragged out by police and thrown in jail overnight.
Desmond was fined $20 and an additional $6 in costs. There was also the possibility of a 30-day jail sentence if she didn't pay — but Desmond won an appeal in court on a technicality. Segregation was legally ended in Nova Scotia in 1954, in part because of the publicity generated by Desmond's case.