Copyright © 2018 Graham Reynolds and Wanda Robson

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Fernwood Publishing Company Limited gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of Nova Scotia, Arts Nova Scotia and the Province of Manitoba for our publishing program.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Reynolds, Graham, 1944-, author

Viola Desmond: her life and times / Graham Reynolds, Wanda Robson.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-77363-123-3 (softcover).—ISBN 978-1-77363-124-0 (EPUB).—ISBN 978-1-77363-125-7 (Kindle)

1. Desmond, Viola, 1914-1965. 2. Black Canadian women—Biography. 3. Black Canadian businesspeople—Biography. 4. Civil rights workers, Black—Nova Scotia—Biography. 5. Blacks—Canada—History. 6. Blacks—Nova Scotia—History. 7. Blacks—Segregation—Canada—History. 8. Segregation—Canada—History. 9. Canada—Ethnic relations—History. I. Robson, Wanda, 1926-, author II. Title.

FC2346.26.D48R49 2018 971.6’004960092 C2018-903705-9

C2018-904502-7