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Nettie Ware and her friend around 1925. I think that this image shows how Nettie is seen as a very successful woman, and that her homesteading beginnings are often left out of her many accomplishments. Her homesteading beginnings is what shaped her…

A bronze outdoor historical plaque, in Fayetteville, Ark, honouring and summarizing the escape of enslaved man Nelson Hackett from Arkansas to Canada, his recapture, extradition, and the international political consequences of the case.

Newspaper article detailing John H. Means is returning from Tennessee & Alabama to Nova Scotia with about 60 Black people, the steel workers plus their families. It states that Means encountered some opposition to the deportation of the families to…

Picture of Myron Sutton and his Bands “The Canadian Ambassadors” posing for their picture wearing high end suits and looking extremely professional. Clothing was always a conscious choice in how others would view these musicians and them wearing the…

In his memoir, 'My Name’s Not George,' former porter and activist Stanley G. Grizzle gives his account of his time as a sleeping car porter and of the history of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP). For years, Black employees couldn’t…