may 2, 1940 - Protest Against Toronto Skating Rink

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The Black community protest[s] with placards to condemn the anti-Black practices of a roller-skating rink on Yonge Street in Toronto that had refused to admit a young Black boy in 1940 (Brand 1991: 206).

Source: Robyn Maynard. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (2017). Page 38.

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