Civil rights leader Viola Desmond

Viola Desmond

Living place: Canada

Birthday: 6-7-1914

Global rank: #41261

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Who is Civil rights leader Viola Desmond?
Remembering to fight for the rights of fellow African-Canadians by refusing to retreat to a segregated section of the Nova Scotia Roseland Theater, she also remembered to set up a cosmetology school catering to the needs of women. black leather and launched a line of beautiful products for women. of African descent
she was fined and temporarily jailed for her own defiant actions; After her death, she was formally pardoned by the Canadian government.
 
 

Young / Before famous

During her early years, she attended beauty schools in New York, Montreal and Atlantic City.

Family life info

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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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Civil rights leader Viola Desmond?
She is often compared to American civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who famously refused to give up a seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Desmond's actions actually preceded the Parks' by almost a decade.

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When was Civil rights leader Viola Desmond born?
Viola Desmond was born in 6-7-1914, death year is , at the age of 110.
Where is Civil rights leader Viola Desmond's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Viola Desmond was born in . is a Civil rights leader, whose Zodiac is Cancer, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Tiger. Viola Desmond's global rank is 41261 and whose rank is 63 in list of famous Civil rights leader.
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Events in 1914 and 6-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Viola Desmond

  • World War I begins: Austria declares war on Serbia; Germany on Russia and France; Britain on Germany.
  • Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and wife Sophie assassinated in Sarajevo by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip.
  • Panama Canal is officially opened after 10 years of construction.

Birthday Viola Desmond (6-7) in history

  • Day 6-7 year 1535: Attorney Thomas More was beheaded in Tower Hill, London, United Kingdom, after refusing to join the Church of England by Henry VIII.
  • Day 6-7 year 1885: Louis Pasteur successfully treated a patient with a rabies vaccine.
  • Day 6-7 year 1942: Anne Frank and her family sought refuge from the Nazis in Amsterdam.
  • Day 6-7 year 1944: A fire caused by inept fire-eaters in the main tent of the Ringling Brothers Circus in Hartford, Conn., killed over 160 people.
  • Day 6-7 year 1957: Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon women's singles tennis title. She was the first black person to win the event.
  • Day 6-7 year 1997: The Mars rover Sojourner rolled onto the Martian surface.
  • Day 6-7 year 1998: Roy Rogers, the King of the Cowboys, died.
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