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Title
Africville : an African Nova Scotian community is demolished - and fights back (39774)
Physical Illustrated
Collection Professional Library
Series Righting Canada's wrongs (1800)
Synopsis "In the 1960s, in the name of urban renewal, the City of Halifax decided to demolish the community [of Africville], relocate its residents and use the land for industrial development. Residents of Africville strongly opposed this move, but their homes were bulldozed and they were forced into public housing projects in other parts of the city, and promised, but did not receive social assistance to help them resettle. After years of pressure from former members of the community and their descendants, the City of Halifax finally apologized for the destruction of Africville and offered to pay compensation. Through historical photographs, documents, and first-person narratives from former Africville residents, this book offers an account of the racism behind the injustices suffered by the community. It documents how the City destroyed Africville and finally apologized for it."—OCLC.
Author Wesley, Gloria
Dimensions 29 cm.
ISBN# 9781459413580
Stmt Resp Gloria Ann Wesley.
TitleVartn Righting Canada's wrongs : Africville : an African Nova Scotian Community is demolished - and fights back
Subjects Africville (Halifax, N.S.); Black Canadians—Nova Scotia—Halifax—Social conditions; Community development—History; Housing.—Canada; Nova Scotia; Race discrimination—Canada
Call# 971.6225 WES
Holdings
Book 1 copy
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