The Sunday Edition Living in Hope: Viola Desmond's Story Classroom Favourites
The Sunday Edition Living in Hope: Viola Desmond's Story Classroom Favourites
This special presentation from CBC Radio's Sunday Edition is a dramatized account of a pivotal moment in Canadian race relations. On November 8, 1946 Viola Desmond refuses to move to the upstairs balcony in the Roseland Theatre, and is forcibly removed from the theatre and thrown in jail. The resulting legal battle was taken all the way to the Nova Scotia Supreme Court.
- 2007
- 00:54:30
- 13-14
- Added on: 02/02/2017
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- Subjects
- Desmond, Viola, 1914-1965 [LCSH] Black Canadians -- Nova Scotia -- Biography [CSH] Civil rights -- Nova Scotia -- History [LCSH] Race discrimination -- Nova Scotia -- History [LCSH] Nova Scotia -- History [LCSH] Social sciences [LCSH] Canada -- History [LCSH] Equity [LCSH] Social justice -- Study and teaching [LCSH] Women's studies [LCSH]
- Team
- Michael Enright (Host), Marcia Johnson (Writer), Gregory J. Sinclair (Producer)
- Closed captioning
- Not available
- MARC Record
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