On April 26, 1954 a train arrived in Ottawa. Inside one of its cars: a 35-member delegation of the Negro Citizenship Association. In They Call Me George, sociology professor and novelist (Independence) Cecil Foster makes the case that the moment was exceptional, a consequential threshold-crossing episode.
The men, former and current porters (popularly known as “George’s boys”...
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The Toronto Star – In 1954, Black train porters called on Ottawa to transform Canada into ‘a country of equality’
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