
Viola Desmond – Canadian civil & women’s rights activist
Canada , CanadaViola Desmond died on this date - February 7, 1965. Nova Scotian woman who triggered a change in Canada's segregation laws when she refused to give up her seat at the Roseland Theatre in New Glasglow, Nova Scotia. She paid to enter the theatre Nov. 8, 1946, but didn't know she took a seat in […]