Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Under its regulations, the law stipulated that all Chinese people entering Canada must first pay a CA$50 fee, [7] [8] later referred to as a head tax. This was amended in 1887, [ 9 ] 1892, [ 10 ] and 1900, [ 11 ] with the fee increasing to CA$100 in 1901 and later to its maximum of CA$500 in 1903, representing a two-year salary of an immigrant ...
As Black students were frequently excluded from public education, Black community members often established their own schools or took on teaching positions. As activists, Mary Bibb and her husband, Henry Bibb, initiated various projects to serve and uplift Canada West’s growing Black population, including establishing a school in Sandwich. [15]
Vancouver Island University historian, Keith D. Smith described the pass system in his 2009 book Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance: Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927, as a "highly effective component of a "coercive and flexible" "matrix" of restrictive "laws, regulations, and policies" to "confine Indigenous people to ...
White Democratic-dominated legislatures proceeded with passing Jim Crow laws that instituted racial segregation in public places and accommodations, and passed other restrictive voting legislation. In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court allowed racial segregation of public facilities, under the "separate but equal" doctrine.
Canada had also practiced segregation, and a Canadian Ku Klux Klan exists. [34] [35] Racial profiling occurs in cities such as Halifax, Toronto and Montreal. [36] [37] Black people made up 3% of the Canadian population in 2016, and 9% of the population of Toronto (which has the largest communities of Caribbean and African immigrants). [38]
In 2001, the school's African-American center was named for Gaines and another African American who had legally challenged the school's color bar early in the 20th century. A portrait of Gaines hangs in a prominent public place in the law school building. [1] In 2006 the law school posthumously awarded Gaines an honorary degree in law.
The Municipal Court quickly rejected the District's claim that the Reconstruction laws were still in effect stating that the laws "had been repealed by implication on the enactment by Congress of the Organic Act of June 11, 1878." [6] That Act restructured the local government to contain only three presidentially-appointed commissioners ...
Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., will introduce legislation to rename the Los Angeles U.S. Courthouse after the Latino family whose lawsuit Mendez v. Westminster paved the way for school desegregation.