Africville

The highest court in the country looked at Negro or colored race or blood, and the problem was the drafting.

And then there's Africville.

It took Ontario's progressive conservative government under Leslie Frost later that year to pass a law saying those covenants were void.

Tell people about Africville.

Africville was a Black community on the edge of Halifax, nearly two hundred years old.

People there paid taxes, and for all those years, the city refused to give them sewers, clean water, or garbage pickup, no matter how many times they asked.

One well had a sign on it: "Boil this water before drinking." The city put a prison, a slaughterhouse, and an infectious disease hospital next to it.

I said if repair ever happens, build it around living people.

So he was born in 1870

in Africville, California.

which is a historic black community in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

So now he stood five foot three and a half and he weighed 87 pounds, right? Now, but despite his small stature, he revolutionized boxing by being widely credited with the development of shadow boxing.