Carrie best biography documentaries

An educational video series focused on amplifying important Black figures and events throughout history, who have often been overlooked in textbooks, and in schools.

• Viola Desmond

  Viola Desmond played a seminal role in Canada’s civil rights movement. On Nov. 8, 1946, Demond was dragged out of the Roseland Movie Theatre in New Glasgow, N.S. and jailed by police for sitting in the “whites only” section. At the time, Black people could only sit in the balcony. She was subsequently convicted of a “tax violation” for “failing” to pay the 1 cent difference between the whites only section, and the balcony seating.
  
  In 2010, Desmond was granted Canada’s first posthumous pardon, a formal apology from the Crown-in-Right-of-Nova Scotia for prosecuting her for tax evasion and an acknowledgement that she was rightfully resisting racial discrimination.
  
  Her face is now the centrepiece of our $10 banknote, accompanied by quotations from the Human Ri

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  Dr. Carrie Best’s legacy lives on at King’s

  Cover photo courtesy of Berma Marshall.

  Dr. Carrie Best (DCL’92), born in New Glasgow, N.S. in 1903, was said to have written her first poem when she was just kvartet. She grew up to become a prolific writer, publisher and broadcaster, and was unafraid to call out the racial injustices she witnessed in her lifetime.

  “I fought on my own terms and with my own weapons…Intelligence, patience, a lot of bön, a lot of forgiveness,” Dr. Best says in a CBC interview in 1991.

  Photo courtesy of Berma Marshall.

  In 1943, Dr. Best confronted racial segregation at the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow. She had purchased two tickets for downstairs seats to watch a movie with her son. Both of them were arrested and fought the charges to utmaning the legality of the theatre’s segregation. Their case was unsuccessful and they were ordered to pay damages to the Roseland’s owners. The experience motivated Dr. Best in 1946 to found The Clario

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  Sylvia D. Hamilton: Good morning everyone! Good morning, let me hear you.

  Audience: Good morning!

  Sylvia: Thank you, thank you for the introduction I really appreciate the opportunity to be with you this morning and to share something about my work.

  I grew up watching Pierre Berton on Front Page Challenge, and for many years, I've been introducing students in my documentary classes to the 1957 National Film Board film classic City of Gold, which he narrated.

  It's the story of the Klondike Gold Rush and his hometown of Dawson City. Directors Colin Low and Wolf Koenig make expert use of archival black-and-white still photographs to tell this story. It is well worth your twenty-two minutes, so please head over to nfb.ca to look at this film.

  I am the grateful daughter of Marie Nita Waldron and Gerald Mac Hamilton. The granddaughter of Ida Grosse and Gilbert Hamilton, of Hattie Kellum and Barbadian William Waldron, the great grand granddaughter of Charlotte and Charles Gr

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