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gptkbp:instanceOf
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gptkb:activist
gptkb:businesswoman
gptkb:person
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gptkbp:birthDate
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1914-07-06
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gptkbp:birthPlace
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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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gptkbp:deathDate
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1965-02-07
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gptkbp:deathPlace
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gptkb:New_York_City,_New_York,_USA
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gptkbp:education
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gptkb:Field_Beauty_Culture_School,_Montreal
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gptkbp:ethnicity
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Black Canadian
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gptkbp:featuredIn
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gptkb:Canadian_$10_bill_(2018)
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gptkbp:honor
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Canada's Walk of Fame inductee
Canadian Museum for Human Rights exhibit
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Viola Desmond
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gptkbp:influenced
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Canadian civil rights movement
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gptkbp:knownFor
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refusing to leave a whites-only area of a movie theatre in 1946
challenging racial segregation in Canada
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gptkbp:legacy
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gptkb:Viola_Desmond_Chair_in_Social_Justice_at_Cape_Breton_University
gptkb:Viola_Desmond_Day_(Nova_Scotia)
gptkb:Viola_Desmond_Public_School_(Ontario)
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gptkbp:nationality
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gptkb:Canadian
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gptkbp:occupation
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beauty salon owner
beauty school founder
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gptkbp:pardonGranted
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2010
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gptkbp:restingPlace
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gptkb:Camp_Hill_Cemetery,_Halifax,_Nova_Scotia
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gptkbp:sibling
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gptkb:Wanda_Robson
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gptkbp:spouse
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gptkb:Jack_Desmond
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gptkbp:subjectOf
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books
documentaries
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:African-Canadian
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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5
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