What is Viola Desmond?
[[File:Viola_Desmond.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Viola Desmond around 1940]] '''Viola Irene Desmond''' (July 6, 1914 – February 7, 1965) was a [[civil rights]] activist in [[Canada]]. In 1946 she went into a [[Racial segregation|segregated]] part of a [[Movie theater|movie theatre]] and would not leave. Then she was charged with [[tax evasion]] because the seats cost one cent less there. This event turned into a very well-known example of [[discrimination]]. Desmond was born in [[1914]] and [[Death|died]] in [[1965]]. She was [[Pardon|pardoned]] from the tax evasion charge in 2010. <ref>{{Cite web|date=2010-04-18|title='Canada's Rosa Parks,' Viola Desmond, posthumously pardoned|url=http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2907492|access-date=2022-04-06|website=archive.ph|archive-date=2010-04-18|archive-url=https://archive.today/20100418043517/http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2907492|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Desmond, Viola}} [[Category:1914 births]] [[Category:1965 deaths]] [[Category:Civil rights activists]] [[Category:Canadian activists]] [[Category:People from Nova Scotia]]