Journey to Justice

http://www.nfb.ca/playlists/nfb_celebrates_black_history_month/viewing/journey_to_justice/
Publisher:  National Film Board of Canada
Year Published:  2000
Resource Type:  Film/Video
Cx Number:  CX23036

The film examines the history of Canadian discrimination against Black Canadians, and the individuals who refuse to accept inequality by taking racist perpetrators and institutions to court, and the civil rights challenges of it. The film has a runtime of 47 mins.

Abstract: 
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Producer's description:

This documentary pays tribute to a group of Canadians who took racism to court. They are Canada's unsung heroes in the fight for Black civil rights. Focusing on the 1930s to the 1950s, this film documents the struggle of 6 people who refused to accept inequality. Featured here, among others, are Viola Desmond, a woman who insisted on keeping her seat at the Roseland movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia in 1946 rather than moving to the section normally reserved for the city's Black population, and Fred Christie, who took his case to the Supreme Court after being denied service at a Montreal tavern in 1936. These brave pioneers helped secure justice for all Canadians. Their stories deserve to be told.