Viola Desmond refused to leave the main-floor seating reserved for white patrons at the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow. Police removed and arrested her, and a tax charge was used against her. Her resistance and subsequent legal challenge exposed how commercial exclusion could be upheld through policing and apparently neutral legal procedures.
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How was Viola Desmond’s cinema resistance punished?
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Authorities used a small ticket-tax difference as the legal basis for prosecution after she resisted racially segregated seating.
A tax charge was used against Viola Desmond after she resisted segregated seating.
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The prosecution used the ticket-tax difference to punish her action.