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Viola Desmond

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Profession
Civil Rights Leader
Died
Feb 7, 1965
Zodiac
Cancer
Born in
HalifaxCanada
About
Remembered for fighting for the rights of fellow African Canadians by refusing to retreat to a segregated portion of Nova Scotia's Roseland Theatre, she is also remembered for establishing a beauty school catering to the needs of black women and for launching a successful beauty products line for women of African descent.
Family
She and her fourteen siblings grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as the children of Gwendolin and James Davis. She later married Jack Desmond.

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