Africville:
Africville was a vibrant Black community for more than 150 years [in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada]. But even though its residents paid municipal taxes, they lived without running water, sewers, paved roads and police, fire-truck and ambulance services. Over time, the city located a slaughterhouse, a hospital for infectious disease, and even the city garbage dump nearby. In the 1960s, city officials decided to demolish the community, moving people out in city dump trucks and relocating them in public housing. Source: Good Reads
Bastion Shauntay Grant books
Okanagan Regional Library (ORL) Shauntay Grant books
BACKGROUND OF AFRICVILLE
CBC Arts interview with Shauntay Grant, "Africville’s destruction is a shameful chapter in Canadian history, but it must be remembered" (2:19)
History Bits: Remembering Africville / Parcelles d’histoire :
Se souvenir d’Africville (5:10)
"The Story of Africville" by Cameron (3:54)
(21 mins)
"Africville Then and Now" a video Essay on the True Story of Africville by Darius Cox (12:34)
- Reflecting on the legacy of Africville by CTV Your Morning, a journalistic interview with former residents from Africville (7:48)
- Canadian Museum for Human Rights, "The Story of Africville" by Matthew McRae
- Viola Desmond by Canadian Museum for Human Rights, social activism
- Black Sleeping Car Porters by Canadian Museum for Human Rights
- The Story of Slavery in Canadian History by Canadian Museum for Human Rights
- Royal Canadian Museum (Victoria, B.C.) presents "Hope Meets Action: Echoes Through the Black Continuum." Visit the pocket gallery display
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