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“Viola’s recognition helps to right a wrong, namely challenge our lack of appreciation and understanding for models of female leadership and black entrepreneurship and their valuable contributions to our knowledge of entrepreneurship, leadership, management and organizations.— JA Files
A ground-breaking African Nova Scotian entrepreneur who built a new market in an emerging field with three successful verticals. Canadians know Viola as a civil rights leader, but her accomplishments also include her enterprises, and her many graduates who established businesses of their own within and beyond the Maritimes.
The Nova Scotia Business Hall of Fame. (October 5, 2021). "Viola Desmond". Nova Scotia Business Laureates Digital Archive, https://nslaureates.ca/laureates/viola-desmond. (Accessed: 2022, August 12)
The Nova Scotia Business Hall of Fame. (2021, October 5). "Viola Desmond". Nova Scotia Business Laureates Digital Archive. Retrieved from: https://nslaureates.ca/laureates/viola-desmond.
The Nova Scotia Business Hall of Fame, "Viola Desmond", Nova Scotia Business Laureates Digital Archive, Last modified: October 5, 2021, (Accessed at: 2022, August 12), https://nslaureates.ca/laureates/viola-desmond
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