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Physical material from the first triennial international convention for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. This convention, from 1953, took place in Los Angeles, California. Hundreds of porters and their wives took the train from the US and…

Seperated into lines of details each about a specific aspect of Howard. Name, address, etc.

The Photo shows four Black railway porters Shirley Jackson, Pete Stevens, Harry Gairey, and Jimmy Downes, standing beside a train. Jackson and Gairey were leaders in organizing the BSCP, which was the first Black union in Canada to win a contract…

This law marked the first legislative attempt in British North America to restrict the institution of slavery rather than protect or enhance it. While it did not emancipate those already bound, the act forbade importation of new enslaved folks on the…

An article by McGill Daily of Anne Cools.

The Mynah Bird was a popular music venue in Yorkville, Toronto, and was known for being a coffeehouse venue in the morning and hosting R&B performers at night. Many famous Canadian folk singers got their start here, such as Joni Mitchell and Neil…

Lloyd's official Missouri map drawn and engraved for the Land Office Department based on real surveys

This church was founded in 1847 to service London, Ontario's growing Black population. Seeing as they did not have the funds to construct themselves a church, they used an old home as a place to congregate. This small chapel was a common place for…

In 1946, Louis Metcalf, a trumpet player who had been a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra in the late 1920s, relocated to Montréal. He formed the Louis Metcalf International Band, which quickly became a cornerstone of the city’s jazz scene and…