In 1946, entrepreneur Viola Desmond refused to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre and was unjustly convicted of a tax violation used to enforce segregation. Desmond built a career as a beautician and was a mentor to young Black women in Nova Scotia through her Desmond School of Beauty Culture. Desmond was born […]
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