Biographie En Images: Voici Viola Desmond

Author:   Elizabeth MacLeod ,  Mike Deas
Publisher:   Scholastic Canada Ltd
ISBN:  

9781443163880


Pages:   32
Publication Date:   01 August 2018
Recommended Age:   From 6 to 10 years
Format:   Hardback
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Biographie En Images: Voici Viola Desmond


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"See below for English description. Faites la rencontre de Viola Desmond, entrepreneure et véritable pionnière en matière d'égalité raciale au Canada. Par un jour pluvieux de novembre 1946, Viola, de passage à Glasgow en Nouvelle-Écosse, décide d'aller au cinéma. Elle s'installe dans la section officieusement réservée aux Blancs, mais l'ouvreuse lui demande de changer de place. Viola refuse, car elle sait que c'est à cause de la couleur de sa peau. La police l'emmène de force. Viola est emprisonnée, jugée et déclarée coupable. Cela ne l'empêche pas, avec l'aide de ses partisans, de continuer à se battre pour la justice sociale. Bien qu'elle ait ultimement perdu sa cause devant la Cour suprême, elle fut une pionnière pour les premiers militants des droits civils. Grâce au travail acharné de sa soeur Wanda qui s'est battue pour que son héritage soit reconnu à sa juste valeur, le portrait de Viola figurera sur les nouveaux billets de 10$ canadiens. Meet Viola Desmond, community leader and early civil rights trailblazer! On the night of November 8th 1946, Nova Scotia businesswoman Viola Desmond stood up for her right to be in the ""unofficial"" whites-only section of a New Glasgow movie theatre... and was arrested for it. Supported by the Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NSCAACP) and the black-owned newspaper The Clarion, Viola took her quest for the right to freedom from discrimination to the courts. While she ultimately did not succeed, she was a beacon to other early civil-rights activists. Her sister Wanda worked hard to promote Viola's legacy, which has been finally honoured by Viola's inclusion on the new Canadian $10 bill. Original title: Scholastic Canada Biography: Meet Viola Desmond"

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Author:   Elizabeth MacLeod ,  Mike Deas
Publisher:   Scholastic Canada Ltd
Imprint:   Scholastic Canada Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 23.40cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9781443163880


ISBN 10:   1443163880
Pages:   32
Publication Date:   01 August 2018
Recommended Age:   From 6 to 10 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  Children / Juvenile
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Language:   French

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Elizabeth MacLeod a été rédactrice pour le magazine OWL pour ensuite écrire de nombreux ouvrages pour enfants. Elle est l'auteure de l'album Bunny, cheval de guerre; du livre documentaire Canada en vedette (avec Frieda Wishinsky) et des livres de la collection Biographie. Elizabeth vit à Toronto. Mike Deas est auteur-illustrateur de bandes dessinées, telles que Dalen and Gole Scandal in Port Angus. Il signe aussi les illustrations de la série Graphic Guide Adventure. Sa passion pour l'illustration a été entretenue tout au long de son enfance à l'île Saltspring, en Colombie-Britannique où il habite encore aujourd'hui. Elizabeth MacLeod is the author of many notable Canadian nonfiction titles including Bunny, cheval de guerre, Canada en vedette (co-authored with Frieda Wishinsky), as well as many critically acclaimed biographies. She lives in Toronto, Ontario. Mike Deas is an author-illustrator of graphic novels, most recently Dalen and Gole: Scandal in Port Angus. He is the illustrator of the Graphic Guide Adventure series. His love for illustrative storytelling comes from an early love of reading and drawing while growing up on Saltspring Island, British Columbia.

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