‘You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right’
ROSA PARKS
On the first of December 1955 she refused to give up her seat on the bus
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@56blackcat In Canada we had,
Viola Irene Desmond was a Canadian civil and women's rights activist and businesswoman of Black Nova Scotian descent. In 1946, she challenged racial segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia by refusing to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre
Now Honoured on our $10 Bill
@JayCee
Thank you! I wasn’t aware of this woman at all!