The Trailblazing Life of Viola Desmond: A Civil Rights Icon by Rachel Kehoe

The Trailblazing Life of Viola Desmond: A Civil Rights Icon

Rachel Kehoe with Chelsea Charles (Illustrator), Wanda Robson

96 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction biography middle grade race
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Years before Rosa Parks famously refused to give up a bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, Viola Desmond took a similar stand against racial segregation in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. On November 8, 1946, she was arrested for refusing to move from the "...

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