No, I also said she's a woman. She was also civil rights activist, & someone I greatly respect, but that wasn't the point I was getting at and which you clearly missed.
Desmond was not a civil rights activist. She got a ticket for sitting in the white section of a theater while visiting New Glasgow. It's not even evident she knew it was a white section. She took it to court, lost, and neither appealed it nor went to the media nor campaigned on it. She went home and was never seen or heard from again.
She replaces the guy who founded Canada on the bill.