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Viola Desmond was famous because in the 1940s in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia she was having problems with her car and so she got it checked and they said it would have to wait until the next day and so she saw a movie theaters called Roseland Theatre she bought a ticket to see a movie but they would not sell a main floor ticket to African canadians it was reserved for only white people but she sat on the man floor anyway theatre staff came and demanded her to go to the balcony but she refused because she could see better on the main floor she was immediatly dragged away by polce and put into jail overnight(12 hours).

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