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To me like Africville should be in the museum for human rights – the story of Africville. People should know about north books.

People like Viola Desmond, who was an individual, I believe in the 50s, a black woman who tried to go see a movie, basically, and was kicked out of a segregated movie theatre. Made to move upstairs and refused to go upstairs and was arrested similar to Rosa Parks – before Rosa Parks. And this is a black Canadian woman, a business woman, a woman who owned a business, but not a lot of people actually know that this person exists.