Thanks for the support but please try to keep bait off of this thread. :•) I don't want it locked before the 28th.
Jacob don't ignore my thread. Would you like receiving valentine flowers as a gift or are you too manly man-ish
Never easy to tell over text if someone is serious or not. You have a tendency of proving that. Anywho yeah good thread
13. Viola Desmond (1914 ー 1965) Growing up in Nova Scotia, Canada, Desmond noticed a lack of hair and skin-care products for black women. She wanted to become a professional beautician to fix that issue, but her race prevented her from attending schooling in her local Halifax. So, she left Nova Scotia in search of a beauty school that would train her. Eventually receiving education in Montreal, Atlantic City, and New York City, Desmond returned to Halifax and established her own salon. She also founded her own beauty school, The Desmond School of Beauty Culture, to allow black women to learn how to become beauticians in Halifax. Additionally, Desmond created, marketed, and sold her own line of beauty products catering to black women, affectionately called Vi's Beauty Products. On November 8th, 1946, while on a business trip to sell her products, Desmond's car broke down in New Glasgow. The mechanic shop told her repairs would take 24 hours, and so Desmond searched for some local entertainment to help her pass the time. She settled on viewing The Dark Mirror at the local movie theater. Desmond sat in the whites-only section of the theater. While there were no formal segregation laws in Canada, the privately owned theater enforced their own rules. Upon being asked to move, Desmond refused on account of being near-sighted and having a better view of the film from the whites-only section. She was attacked and forcibly removed from the theater, causing multiple injuries, including a broken hip. She was charged with tax evasion (as the whites-only section had a higher tax rate that Desmond did not pay at the box office), thrown in jail for 12 hours and made to pay a fine of $20 CAD ($282.13 in 2018, adjusted for inflation). Desmond was not informed of her legal rights to a lawyer or bail. Upon her eventual return to Halifax, Desmond decided to take her case to court by filing a lawsuit against the theater for her injuries. Unfortunately, she lost the lawsuit. Desmond was posthumously pardoned by the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia on April 14th, 2010. This was the first posthumous pardon in Canadian history. The government also issued an apology to Desmond's living relatives. To be continued...
14. May Ayim (1960 ー 1996) A Hamburg, Germany, native, Ayim was a prominent Afro-German that combated racism through art and activism. She authored many essays on the Afro-German experience, such as her college thesis Afro-Deutsche: Ihre Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte aus dem Hintergrund gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen (translation: Afro-Germans: Their Cultural and Social History on the Background of Social Change). This thesis is considered to be the first academic study of Afro-German history. Ayim pushed for recognition and visibility of Afro-Germans as an important German minority group. Growing up in as an adoptee to a white family, Ayim felt very isolated due to her transracial identity and the lack of other Afro-German role models in her life. Ayim co-founded the Initiative Schwarze Deutsche und Schwarze in Deutschland (translation: Initiative of Black Germans and Black People in Germany), known as the ISD for short. Its goal is to create a bigger community of Afro-Germans to celebrate their culture and memorialize their history as a racial minority in Germany. To be continued...