By Sandie

Fight at Auburn High: Leads



  1. Buddy Dye, Sr., a light weight boxing champion and the first black Sergeant-at-arms in Nova Scotia
  2. Two black students and on white student were charged with a disturbance and are currently awaiting trial
  3. An article about racism at Auburn Drive that appeared in the Halifax Chronicle Herald
  4. Nova Scotia history
  5. Refugees of the War of 1812
  6. Runaways and Freed Slaves
  7. Loyalists
  8. In the 18th and early 19th century. The area in and around Halifax was a mecca for black immigrants filtering up to Canada
  9. Douglas Sparxs, president of the ratepayers association of east Preston
  10. According to recent statistics, the average black Nova Scotian is poorer than the average white Nova Scotian, who is poorer than the average Canadian.
  11. As early as 1800's the black community was petitioning the provincial government for equal education
  12. In 1975, the Preston communities filed a class action suit with the Human Rights Commission against the Halifax County School Board because they felt black youth were receiving inadequate facilities and education
  13. Student-run radio station aired on Radio Havana
  14. Cole Hardour High
  15. In January 1989, Cole Harbour, just down the street from Auburn Drive, made national headlines when a school-wide, black-against-white fight took place
  16. Malcolm X, talks eloquently about the black power movement and the merits of black leaders
  17. Marcus Garvey
  18. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  19. Louis Farrakhan
  20. The Year the school opened (September 1994)
  21. African Heritage Month
  22. February 23, Gyasi spoke on a panel in Halifax about rites of passage for black men
  23. Sherri Borden, wrote an article on February 24th called School Experience 'Bitter,' Young Black Males Arguee, focusing on Gyasi, appeared in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald
  24. A week later, anther article appeared in the afternoon edition of the Chronicle-Herald, but this time the school and the administration were at the center. Parents Unite Behind Black Students at Auburn Drive, was the head line
  25. In March, School board member Stephen Boyce was quoted in the Chronicle-Herald
  26. Esmeralda Thornhill, chair of black Canadian studies at Dalhousie
  27. Heritage Canada for the UN's elimination of racism day. "Stop Racism!"
  28. Don Buck was quoted in the Chronicle-Herald about racism
  29. Sit-in
  30. Recommendations for better race relations has been made by Wayn Hamiltion, a regional educator in Dartmouth
  31. A mentoring program
  32. In March, a couple of weeks after the fighting, Tronto writer Cecil Foster visited Auburn Drive. In a Toronto Star column, foster wrote…