sep 1, 1939 - World War II
Begins (1939)
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"The legacy of slavery meant that Black women, too, remained captive within the same forms of labour they had performed under bondage. Until the Second World War, one of the only employment available to Canadian-born Black women was that of domestic service, a role which consisted of nearly twenty-four hours a day of submission and deference… Despite structurally enforced gendered and racial subjection, in the early 1900s, some Canadian-born Black domestic workers were actively engaged in organizing with the United Negro Improvement Association, and some of the very few that made it into factory work also attempted to organize unions (Brand 1991). Despite Black resistance, anti-Black labour segmentation was persistent."
Source: Robyn Maynard. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (2017). Page 39.
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BIPOC Oppression & Resistance in Canada & the US
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