AP December 8, 2016, 8:54 PM
Viola Desmond, described as Canada's Rosa Parks, memorialized on $10 bill
GATINEAU, Quebec -- A black woman often described as Canada’s Rosa Parks for her 1946 decision to sit in a whites-only section of a Nova Scotia movie theater will be the first Canadian woman to be celebrated on the face of a Canadian banknote.
Finance Minister Bill Morneau said Thursday that Viola Desmond will grace the front of the $10 bill when the next series goes into circulation in 2018.
A businesswoman turned civil libertarian, Desmond built a business as a beautician and mentored young black women in Nova Scotia.
It was in 1946 when she rejected racial discrimination by sitting in a whites-only section of a New Glasgow movie theatre. She was arrested and fined. Her actions inspired later generations of black people in Nova Scotia and the rest of Canada.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_DesmondI saw news stories on this today; so I searched out for the best story I could see, this is from a week ago but still current.
