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" Canadian Minister of Finance Bill Morneau announced Thursday that the nation will put civil rights icon Viola Desmond on its new $10 bill. Desmond is the first Canadian woman to be featured on the nation's bank notes.
A black Nova Scotian, Desmond refused to leave the whites-only section of a movie theater in 1946, an event that helped spark the Canadian civil rights movement. The incident occurred nine years before U.S. civil rights activist Rosa Parks made a similar statement on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. "
http://theweek.com/speedreads/666152/viola-desmond-first-woman-canadian-bank-note
A black Nova Scotian, Desmond refused to leave the whites-only section of a movie theater in 1946, an event that helped spark the Canadian civil rights movement. The incident occurred nine years before U.S. civil rights activist Rosa Parks made a similar statement on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. "
http://theweek.com/speedreads/666152/viola-desmond-first-woman-canadian-bank-note