HiMY SYeD -- Viola Desmond on New $10 Bill, Allard School of Law at UBC, Vancouver, November 19 2018
Channel: HiMYSYeD
Date: 2018-11-26

HiMY SYeD -- Viola Desmond on New $10 Bill, Allard School of Law, Franklin Lew Forum, Allard Hall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Monday November 19 2018

http://www.allard.ubc.ca/events/celebrating-viola-desmond-new-10-bill

Special ceremony to issue the new $10 bank note, featuring Canadian civil rights icon, Viola Desmond.

Viola Desmond was a successful businesswoman who was jailed, convicted and fined for defiantly refusing to leave a whites-only area of a movie theatre in Nova Scotia in 1946.

Her experience with discrimination inspired the determined pursuit to achieve social and legal equality for members of the African Canadian community as well as for other racialized minorities in Canada.

Speakers: 

Madam Justice Nitya Iyer 

Julian Okot Bitek (Poet, Writer and Scholar)

Sara Ghebremusse (Assistant Professor, Allard School of Law)