Viola Desmond's Canada: A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land

by Graham Reynolds

Book Overview

Winner of the 2017 Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction
The Miramichi Reader's best non-fiction book of 2016

In 1946, Viola Desmond was wrongfully arrested for sitting in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In 2010, the Nova Scotia Government recognized this gross miscarriage of justice and posthumously granted her a free pardon.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552668371
• ISBN13: 9781552668375
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"