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Originally Posted by someone123
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 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...
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My take was in areas that were mixed and had enough Black kids that the Black kids had to go to an all Black school.
Read the section on post-secondary education. Tons of racism--Blacks often couldn't even get into important programs such as nursing and medicine. I wouldn't be surprised if the same rules applied to Asians. Chinese citizens/residents back 100 years ago or so were treated just as badly as Blacks were. Hopefully what's going on now will result in history books being rewritten to reflect the truth.
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