How A Group Stood Up For Civil Rights In An Ontario Town

How A Group Stood Up For Civil Rights In An Ontario Town

Human Rights Movement in Dresden, 1954

This news broadcast was produced by Nick Purdon and the CBC News in 2014, entitled “How a group stood up for civil rights in an Ontario town”, which develops on the aforementioned story of Bromley Armstrong and Ruth Lor as they revisit the same Dresden restaurant they conducted sit-ins for in 1954. This specific clip once again presents how the actions taken by Armstorng and Lor were done out of their own conscious choice, that they considered their fight one which would make things better for “ourselves”, meaning marginalized groups in general and signifying how they purposefully viewed their communities as inclusively connected. The ending, walking arm-in-arm and side by side is another powerful image of Chinese and Black Canadian solidarity, literally interlocking themselves in the fight for human rights.

Nick Purdon

The clip (3:17 - 5:26) is from the following video:

Purdon, Nick, reporter. “How a group stood up for civil rights in an Ontario town.” CBC News: The National, November 14, 2014. Video, 5 min., 31 seconds. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFIqUJlk88o.

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2014

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