This week, Liz and Dakota look back at Nova Scotia's Viola Desmond, and her fight against racial discrimination in the 1940s.  Liz shares about Viola's life, business, arrest, and trial.  <a rel="payment" href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thehistorian">Support the show</a> (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thehistorian)<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

This week, Liz and Dakota look back at Nova Scotia's Viola Desmond, and her fight against racial discrimination in the 1940s. Liz shares about Viola's life, business, arrest, and trial. Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thehistorian) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Liz and Dakota look back at Nova Scotia's Viola Desmond, and her fight against racial discrimination in the 1940s.&nbsp; Liz shares about Viola's life, business, arrest, and trial.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thehistorian" rel="noopener noreferrer">Support the show</a> (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thehistorian) Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Viola Desmond: Black Civil Rights Activist

Welcome to The Reluctant Historian, the podcast where I, a history teacher, try to show my husband that history IS actually pretty cool! Each week we sit down to talk about a different event in history. At the end, the reluctant historian gets to decide if history really is that boring.<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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Welcome to The Reluctant Historian, the podcast where I, a history teacher, try to show my husband that history IS actually pretty cool! Each week we sit down to talk about a different event in history. At the end, the reluctant historian gets to decide if history really is that boring. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to The Reluctant Historian, the podcast where I, a history teacher, try to show my husband that history IS actually pretty cool! Each week we sit down to talk about a different event in history. At the end, the reluctant historian gets to decide if history really is that boring. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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