Open Racism in the Sentencing of Black offenders (oct 4, 1890 – aug 3, 1920)
Description:
"Examinations of court records between the years of 1890 to 1920 found open racism in the sentencing of Black offenders by many magistrates (Denison 1920 and Mosher 1998 in Mosher and Akins 2015: 335)."Source: Robyn Maynard. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (2017). Page 48.
*Month(s) & day(s) in date range approximate
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Date:
oct 4, 1890
aug 3, 1920
~ 29 years
