Shining Lights in the Community - Canada's History
Black schoolteachers strove to educate children while resisting racial injustice.
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Black schoolteachers strove to educate children while resisting racial injustice.
Currently we are sliding to a conclusion that every group should have the opportunity to establish a publicly funded school system.
As the worldwide battle against COVID-19 rages on, and at times, progress seems slow and the challenges great, it may be worth a reminder that small things can make a big difference.
How racism in Ontario schools today is connected to a history of segregation Students of School Section #13 with teacher, Verlyn Ladd, who taught at the school from 1939 to 1958. Class of 1951, Buxton, Raleigh Township, Ontario. (Buxton National Historic Site & Museum), photo provided by author. Toronto’s Africentric Alternative School first opened in 2009 after years of advocacy and then months of heated public debates and criticism about the meaning and significance of the school. The assumption here was that Ontario always had equitable and open schools. Many argued that separate institu...