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Scrapbook
CA BI MG 21.14-A-14 · File · [ca. 2011]
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

File consists of a scrapbook created by Wanda Robson containing photos and newspaper clippings about events she attended and took park in related to her activism and social justice work, including events for her book Sister to Courage: Stories from the World of Viola Desmond, Canada's Rosa Parks.

Robson, Wanda Eloise
CA BI MG 21.14 · Collection · 1890-2017

Collection consists of records related to Viola Desmond’s 1946 arrest at the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia and her posthumous 2010 free pardon granted by the Government of Nova Scotia. Also included are materials related to Viola Desmond and Wanda Robson’s civil rights work in Nova Scotia, including newspaper clippings and articles, diplomas, certificates, scholarship and bursary documents, a scrapbook and materials related to Robson’s education and published book, Sister to Courage. Included are photographs of the extended Davis family and published books about the Black Nova Scotian experience.

Robson, Wanda Eloise