CRM 402 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Viola Desmond, White Supremacy
25 Apr 2013
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Chapter 5: bitterly disappointed at the spread of colour-bar tactics . Challenged racial discrimination in nova scotia in 1946. She was jailed for twelve ours, convicted and assessed the minimum of with costs of . What she was protesting was the racially segregated seating at the theatre (the roseland) Brings up issues of racial designation (desmond"s parents and grandparents her grandfather. A canadian woman of colour, a businesswoman. 32-year-old from halifax on her way to a business trip. The incident at a movie theatre in new glasgow, ns in november 1946. She was arrested and charged with violating the provincial theatres, cinematographs and. Amusements act of 1915 (segregated movie theatre) payable to harry macneil, the theatre owner was mostly white yet still get treated as a person of colour) A culture that, at the time, 1908 when desmond"s parents married, that rarely welcomed interracial marriage.
