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Against a Brick Wall
From: Seven Days in Halifax
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In this chapter, Ashe describes the live TV panel session Day Six of Halifax’s 1970 “Encounter on Urban Environment,” focusing on civil rights and racial tensions Halifax-Dartmouth. He reports on how activists sought economic restitution and rejected anti-Black and anti-Indigenous bias within governmental systems.
Contributors
Robert Ashe
Robert Ashe is a Halifax native who has worked as a sportswriter, street columnist and crime reporter. For twenty-five years he worked as a communications specialist with the national defense research and development agency. He is the author of five books, including Halifax Champion: Black Power in Gloves, They Called Me Chocolate Rocket, Seven Days in Halifax, Even the Babe Came to Play about a New Brunswick baseball team during the Great Depression, and a collection of columns about life in Saint John entitled, Just Enough Fog to Keep It Cool. He lives with his wife Brenda in Ottawa.
