Jody Nyasha Warner
Auteur de Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged
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Œuvres de Jody Nyasha Warner
Specs and the Best Part 1 exemplaire
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- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Canada
- Lieux de résidence
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 104
- Popularité
- #184,481
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 9
- ISBN
- 8
- Langues
- 1
Almost ten years earlier, however, a woman in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia in Canada exhibited similar bravery in an analogous sitin 1946, uation. Viola Desmond went to the movies, but was told she had to move from her seat on the main floor to one on the balcony, because of the movie house’s segregation policy. Viola refused to move, and had to spend the night in jail.
She was fined twenty dollars, equivalent to some $300 in current money. She and Black community groups in Nova Scotia tried to appeal her charge, but judges refused to hear the case. “Still,” the author writes, “Viola’s bravery made a big difference. She inspired all kinds of people to fight against segregation, and by the late 1950s it was made against the law.”
Back matter includes “A Glimpse of African Canadian History”
Canadian illustrator Richard Rudnicki Rudnicki uses bright acrylic art which conveys the historical look of the period.
Evaluation: This book for kids aged 6 and over is a good way to illustrate that the race struggles in the US are also common elsewhere, and there are brave heroes standing up for equal treatment all around the globe.… (plus d'informations)