Winner of the 2017 Toronto Book Award
A remarkable memoir about achieving prosperity in the face of relentless prejudice
In the Black traces B. Denham Jolly’s personal and professional struggle for a place in a country where Black Canadians have faced systematic discrimination. He arrived from Jamaica to attend university in the mid-1950s and worked as a high school teacher before going into the nursing and retirement-home business. Though he was ultimately successful in his business ventures, Jolly faced both overt and covert discrimination, which led him into social activism. The need for a stronger voice for the Black community fuelled Jolly’s 12-year battle to get a licence for a Black-owned radio station in Toronto. At its launch in 2001, Flow 93.5 became the model for urban music stations across the country, helping to launch the careers of artists like Drake.
Jolly chronicles not only his own journey; he tells the story of a generation of activists who worked to reshape the country into a more open and just society. While celebrating these successes, In the Black also measures the distance Canada still has to travel before we reach our stated ideals of equality.
Authors
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- CaOOCEL
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 384.5406/5713541
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-on
- ISBN
- 9781770909946 9781770413788
- LCCN
- HE8699.C2
- LCCN Item number
- J65 2017eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (iv, 309 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00974165 (OCoLC)960097137 (CaOOCEL)477442
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Table of Contents 4
- Chapter One: In the Lion’s Den 7
- Chapter Two: Growing Up British in Industry Cove 12
- Chapter Three: Company Clerk at the Sugar Estate 32
- Chapter Four: Ontario Agricultural College and Violet’s Refuge 44
- Chapter Five: Nova Scotia Blues and Montreal Delights 67
- Chapter Six: Jamaican Exile 85
- Chapter Seven: Puttin Down Canadian Roots 96
- Chapter Eight: Teaching and Learning 107
- Chapter Nine: Building a Family, Building a Business 124
- Chapter Ten: Stepping Up: Black Business and Professional Association 148
- Chapter Eleven: Businessman, Publisher, Activist 173
- Chapter Twelve: Losing Loved Ones and Losing a Battle 199
- Chapter Thirteen: We Believed and We Deserved 216
- Chapter Fourteen: Number One Contemporary Radio Station in Canada 238
- Chapter Fifteen: Sailing Against the Wind 261
- Chapter Sixteen: Esse Non Videri — To Be, and Not to Seem 285
- Acknowledgements 306
- Appendix 310
- Copyright 315
- Back Cover 316
