In 1946 she challenged racial segregation by refusing to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. The award-winning $10.00 bill was unveiled in March 2018 and went into circulation in November 2018. In this same year, Viola Desmond was named a National Historic Person by the Canadian government.
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