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Viola Desmond's impact on Canadian civil rights

In Canada, Viola Desmond will become the first civilian woman to be on the country's $10 bill next year. Never heard of her? Up until a few years ago, neither did many Canadians. But her story is giving context to assumptions on Canada's history that the nation - free of slavery, free of legal segregation - was not so free of racism. Michelle Miller reports.
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