Canada produced a bank note with a unknown person on it only because she was slightly non-White. The hell with the thousands of 'successful White businesswomen' or the thousands of brave White service women.
QuoteCourage and Dignity
Viola Desmond was a successful black businesswoman who was jailed, convicted and fined for defiantly refusing to leave a whites-only area of a movie theatre in 1946. Her court case was an inspiration for the pursuit of racial equality across Canada. Viola's story is part of the permanent collection at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights