HALIFAX, N.S. — It’s hard to miss the new tribute to trailblazing Halifax businesswoman and civil rights icon Viola Desmond on Gottingen Street, in the ...
HALIFAX, N.S. — It’s hard to miss the new tribute to trailblazing Halifax businesswoman and civil rights icon Viola Desmond on Gottingen Street, in the neighbourhood where she once operated her hair salon, Vi’s Studio of Beauty Culture.
Halifax artist Marven Nelligan stands with grandmother Viola Dixon in front of the new Gottingen Street art installation dedicated to Nova Scotia businesswoman and civil rights icon Viola Desmond, which was unveiled on Wednesday. - Stephen Cooke “We wanted to create something that was going to last for a long time,” Nelligan told the crowd who came out for the ceremony at the library reception that followed. “The people who are coming up behind us can learn about and experience the story of Viola in a new and exciting way.
Taken all together, the installation is designed to provide a more detailed portrait of Desmond, beyond the headlines for her 1946 arrest and subsequent legal battles after sitting in the whites-only section of New Glasgow’s Roseland movie theatre. It includes photos of Desmond’s sister Wanda, who devoted much of her life to preserving and promoting the legacy of her sister, who died in 1965 at the age of 50.
“What inspired me was her savvy,” Taylor told the assembled crowd at the library. “She was a chemist inside, her hunger to strive and achieve all that she could inspire me to do the same. The theatre incident happened to her, but it’s not who she was inside.
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