North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955

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Title
North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955
Abstract
The author examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 Blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of Black railway workers and their union, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters (OSCP), the author connects social, political, labor, immigration, and Black diaspora history during the Jim Crow era. The OSCP was first formed by Black Montreal railway porters in 1917, the first Black railway union in North America.
Date
2010
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Place
Chapel Hill, NC
# of Pages
xiv-280p.
ISBN
978-0-8078-3429-9
Language
en
Citation
Mathieu, Sarah-Jane. North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
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