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• Born March 4, in New Glasgow to parents James and Georgina Ashe Prevoe
• Married Albert T. Best.

  Together they had a son J. Calbert Best. (Mrs. Best would later become foster mother to Berma, Emily, Sharon and Aubrey Marshall.)

• s: Mrs. Best and son Cal are arrested for sitting downstairs in the whites-only seats at The Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow.

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The pair are charged with disturbing the peace, convicted and fined.

• Best founds The Clarion, the first black-owned and -published Nova Scotia newspaper.
• Mrs. Best uses The Clarion to publicize the case of Viola Desmond, the Halifax beautician and businesswoman arrested and fined for sitting downstairs in the whites-only seats at The Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow.

  Best later travelled to Halifax to be in the court when Desmond's case was appealed before the Nova Scotia Supreme Court. Desmond lost that day, but appealed again and won on a technicality, helping topple Jim Crow