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Originally Posted by Corndogger
Similar legislation was implemented in Nova Scotia in 1865. While amendments in 1884 stipulated that Black children could not be excluded from attending schools where they lived, racial segregation continued in some areas with high concentrations of Black residents such as Halifax. In other Nova Scotian communities such as Inglewood and Weymouth Falls, the practice of racially segregated schools persisted due to the realities of racial segregation of residential neighbourhoods. In extreme cases, Black children were denied any access to local public schools in towns such as Fundy and Guysborough County when no separate school existed. The original provisions of racial segregation in education remained law in Nova Scotia until 1950.
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This passage is so badly written. They say the practice of excluding black children was banned in law in 1884 but then they sort of say it existed somewhere at some point without giving detail on the time or scale. Most of these places are vague (is or was Fundy NS a real place or town?) or little roads with a few houses on them that I assume historically had one-room schoolhouses the kids in the neighbourhood walked to.
They don't say what the "original provisions of racial segregation in education" are or if they were ever enforced. Lots of bad old laws stay on the books for too long and 1950 was 70 years ago.
As I like to point out the first black person graduated from Dalhousie University in Halifax in 1898. So clearly this story is somewhat more complicated than educational segregation being strictly enforced until 1950, which still would have been better than the Southern US...
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