Black History Month -- Viola Desmond

Viola Desmond (1914 - 1965)

Canadian businesswoman, civil and women's rights activist,

arrested, convicted and fined for challenging racial segregation

in a Nova Scotia cinema in 1946 (pardoned in 2010);

in 2018, she became the first Canadian-born woman

to appear alone on a Canadian bank note (our current $10 bill),

with the Canadian Human Rights Museum on the reverse.