Season of Rage: Hugh Burnett and the Struggle for Civil Rights |
"Beginning in 1943, one man made up his mind to change the way black people in his town were treated. Hugh Burnett was a twenty-four-year-old carpenter, but he had already been away from his hometown to take basic training as a soldier ... Hugh Burnett figured if freedom was worth fighting for on the battlefields of Europe, then it was worth standing up for at home. So when the white owner of a restaurant refused to let him eat there – just because of the colour of his skin – Burnett decided to take a stand." - from John Cooper's "Season of Rage.” |
| The last place in North America where black people and white people could not sit down together to share a cup of coffee in a restaurant was not in the American Deep South. It was in the small, sleepy Ontario town of Dresden. Dresden is the site of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Slaves who made their way north through the Underground Railroad created the thriving Dawn Settlement in Dresden before and during the Civil War. But they did not find Utopia on the Canadian side of the border. | |
| Then in 1954 something extraordinary happened. The National Unity
Association was a group of African Canadian citizens in Dresden who had
challenged the racist attitudes of the 1950s and had forged an alliance with
civil rights activists in Toronto to push the Ontario Government for changes to
the law in order to outlaw discrimination. Despite the law, some business
owners continued to refuse to serve blacks. The National Unity Association
worked courageously through a variety of means of protest to change
attitudes. The story of their season of rage is told in this compelling new book which ties Hugh Burnett's story with the history of civil rights in Canada. Written by John Cooper. Published by Tundra Books, 2005. |
| Catalogue No. | 0-88776-700-1 |
| Price | $14.99 |
| Format | Softcover |
| Pages | 72 |
| Language | English only |
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