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Journey to Justice (2000)

Journey to Justice was released in 2000, in Canada. The American film was produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). The film was directed by Roger McTair. The film is displaying how Black Canadians faced discrimination and their fight against prejudice in the 20th century [1] .

• 2 Black Empowerment
• 3 Controversy
• 4 References

The film reveals how Black Canadians face discrimination and stand for their civil rights. These Black Canadians were Viola Desmond, Fred Christie, Hugh Burnette, Bromley Armstrong, Donald Willard Moore, and Stanley G. Grizzle. These people become the Black Canadian hero as they fought bravely the inequality from the 1930s to the 1950s. Their fight from sit-ins at the theatre to fair employment practices for Black Canadians had become the foundation of equality for everyone in Canada including Black Canadians [3] .

Black Empowerment

There were Black Canadians who became the role model in fighting racism. during the 1930s to the 1950s. For example, Viola Desmond, a Black Canadian woman, was forced to move to a segregated seat when she was watching a movie. She remained in her seat and did not give to anyone. She was arrested in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia in 1946, and later on, she fought the charges on the trial which inspired many Black Canadians to not remain silent and submit to discrimination. Fred Christie brought his case to the Supreme Court in 1936 as he was rejected at a Montreal tavern for being black. In the 1940s, the Ontario state government was constrained by many Black Canadians especially Hugh Brunette and Bromley Armstrong to provide fair accommodation practices for Black Canadians. The Black union members were also ensured for their civil rights as Stanley G. Grizzle, the president of the Toronto Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters who was also a Black Canadian, worked and collaborated to create equal rights and justice for all Cacnadians [4] .

Controversy

Ray Lewis, who won a medal for Canada at the 1932 Olympics, was struggled when he returned home. His hometown became a location where Ku Klux Klan Canada gathered. The success of Ray Lewis seemed to be not historical and even considered as unimportant, where he could only be working as a Pullman porter. He was prohibited to be a coach due to being a Black Canadian. Another case was Stanley Grizzle. As a Black soldier, he was not allowed to be Canadian army at World War II despite his distinction in a segregated unit in World War I. When he was drafted to war, he was assigned for cleaning his officer's clothes, tidying their tent, and shining their shoes. Later on, he challenged the officials and complaint to the commanders. Eventually, he got another assignment which led to a better duty. Although he made prominence in serving the army, He was rejected by three hotels on his wedding night and was disrespected by most Canadians [5] .

• ↑ Journey to Justice (2000) . IMDb. Retrieved January 25 2021
• ↑ Journey to Justice Film Poster Amazon. Retrieved January 25 2021
• ↑ Journey to Justice McIntyre Media. Retrieved January 25 2021
• ↑ Our Collection National Board of Canada. Retrieved January 25 2021
• ↑ JOURNEY TO JUSTICE Yorku. Retrieved January 25 2021]
• Anti-Black Racism in Documentary Movies
• Black-Targeted Racism in Documentary Movies

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2000 Directed by Roger McTair

This documentary pays tribute to a group of Canadians who took racism to court. They are Canada's unsung heroes in the fight for Black civil rights. Focusing on the 1930s to the 1950s, this film documents the struggle of 6 people who refused to accept inequality. Featured here, among others, are Viola Desmond, a woman who insisted on keeping her seat at the Roseland movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia in 1946 rather than moving to the section normally reserved for the city's Black population, and Fred Christie, who took his case to the Supreme Court after being denied service at a Montreal tavern in 1936. These brave pioneers helped secure justice for all Canadians. Their stories deserve to be told.

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Laine Drewery Roger McTair Alan Mendelson

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Epitomizes the story of blackness in Canada by completely neglecting the Prairies and Western Canada. NFB fingerprints are all over this one, it ultimately reeks of the fake success of Canadian multiculturalism and absolves us of all our shortcomings in a seemingly comfortable but deeply problematic way. Still, some very important information about Canadian activism which ultimately shines a light on how different it is at an institutional and constitutional level from American activism. The success of interest groups in Canada compared to the narratives of individualism in the United States is night and day and says something about federalism (which has its own part to play in western Canada’s black erasure) and the importance of legal language (the difference between what one may do and what one must do according to the law is vital).

Review by degelle ★★★

Another stark reminder that racism was rampant in Canada as well as the United States from the moment European settlers arrived. It reminded me of a passage I read in Slave Narratives of the Underground Railroad , where someone in Canada responded to accusations of bigotry with something like, "Well, if you stopped sending black people here we wouldn't be racist, so it's all black people's fault and yours too."

That bullheaded stubbornness is present throughout this short doc, and thank goodness people fought it back then and continue to do so today.

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This powerful documentary tells the story of six largely unsung heroes of the Black civil rights movement in Canada. Among them are Viola Desmond, a Halifax businesswoman who insisted on keeping her seat in the whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia in 1946 rather than move to the balcony reserved for Black patrons (Desmond is now featured on Canada’s $10 bill); and Fred Christie, a Jamaican‑born Quebecker who took his case to the Supreme Court of Canada after being denied service at a Montreal tavern in 1936. In the years spanning the 1930s to the 1950s, these brave and pioneering activists risked much in order to secure justice for all. 

Preceded by a brief talk on the history of Canada’s role in the civil rights movement by lawyer Latoya Farrell. Farrell currently works as staff counsel at the BC Civil Liberties Association. She graduated from the University of Saskatchewan college of law with a focus on human rights and criminal justice.

Produced and distributed by the National Film Board of Canada.

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Latoya Farrell graduated from the University of Saskatchewan – College of Law in 2018, completing her final year abroad at the University of Birmingham in England where she focused on Human Rights and Criminal Justice. Prior to that, Latoya worked as a Multicultural Liaison with the Fort McMurray Catholic School District helping Aboriginal and newly immigrated students to successfully complete High School.

In 2009, she graduated from the University of Alberta – Augustana Faculty with a B.A in Sociology and a B.A in Studio Foundations. She has volunteered as a Youth Coordinator with the National Black Coalition of Canada, developing youth programs for the African-Canadian community. She is also an accomplished artist and has been featured in various art shows around Edmonton.

Latoya currently works at the BC Civil Liberties Association as Staff Counsel in the Policy Department.

Curated in conjunction with the performance of “We Shall Overcome: A Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” at the Chan Centre on Saturday, February 29 at 8:00 pm.

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Journey to Justice group seeks law on elder abuse

Last week, Lynn Fiedler and her family and friends held up signs outside the Union County Courthouse calling for justice. Fiedler's mother was one of at least 12 patients abused at Heritage Springs Memory Care near Lewisburg.

Madison Cox, 19, and a juvenile admitted to taking disturbing pictures and videos of the patients while they were partially clothed or nude.

"I could allow the criminal justice system and legal system to take over, and when it was over, it was over. Or I could take a horrific situation and make something positive out of it," Fiedler said.

Fiedler decided to do the latter, and that's how Journey to Justice was formed. The task force consists of victims' family members, local law enforcement, former healthcare workers, Union County District Attorney Brian Kerstetter, and State Senator Lynda Schlegel-Culver.

"We're coming to learn that we're not protecting our senior citizens," Sen. Lynda Schlegel-Culver said. "We're leaving them out there very vulnerable. The law is not the same as if you were a child."

The goal of the task force is to create new legislation to better protect our senior citizens.

"One of the things that I'm looking at, that we're working on, is getting a list created, a registry similar to Megan's Law, but for people who are elder abusers," Fiedler said.

A similar piece of legislation was introduced in the Pennsylvania Senate last summer, called Senate Bill 885. It calls for providing a statewide registry of perpetrators of abuse in facilities.

"We're going to be tweaking the law over the next few weeks, and we're going to reintroduce it, seek out sponsors, and try to get it moving," Sen. Schlegel-Culver said.

The group plans to rename S.B. 885 as Alice's Law after Fiedler's mother.

"No one should ever have to go through what my family and I Have gone through, nor, of course, what these victims have suffered," Fiedler said.

Sen. Schlegel-Culver says there are many steps to getting a bill passed, but she is optimistic. While this task force is in its early stages, Fiedler says they are on a journey to justice and are in it for the long haul.

As for Madison Cox , a judge threw out her plea agreement earlier this month, saying it was not sufficient punishment.

Cox will either go to trial, or another plea agreement could be arranged.

The Supreme Court justice who actually picked a president

Supreme Court Justice Joseph P. Bradley isn’t exactly a household name, but no justice has played a more high-profile role in presidential politics. After the 1876 election, newspapers labeled him “Joe Bradley, our President maker.”

As the Supreme Court hears arguments Thursday on whether former president Donald Trump is immune from prosecution, the justices are under scrutiny for any role they may play in the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. But long before the court’s messy involvement in this year’s race or its one-vote majority that put George W. Bush in the White House in 2000, Bradley was the decider in the razor-close contest between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio and Democrat Samuel Tilden of New York. The justice became the poster boy — and, to many Democrats, the villain — on a commission created by Congress to resolve one of America’s most convoluted presidential elections ever.

The outcome was still up in the air on Jan. 29, 1877, nearly 12 weeks after the election, with Tilden one short of the 185 electoral votes needed. Twenty electoral votes were still unresolved because of competing submissions from South Carolina, Louisiana and Florida — where White Democrats had attacked Black Republican voters, prompting charges of interference — and from Oregon, where one electoral vote was disputed.

Nobody knew it at the time, but the process for deciding the election would end up destroying the rights of Black people in the South. For now, the focus was on picking a president before the March 5 inauguration.

So Congress created a 15-member electoral commission, consisting of five senators, five House members and five Supreme Court justices. The members were split evenly between Republicans and Democrats, plus Justice David Davis, a political independent. But then Davis, of Illinois, resigned to accept an appointment to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat.

To replace him, the commission turned to Bradley, a moderate Republican appointed by outgoing President Ulysses S. Grant, as the least partisan of the remaining justices. The 63-year-old Bradley, a former farm boy who became a wealthy New Jersey railroad lawyer, would be the potential tiebreaker.

Bradley was a “cold man” who “convinces by the force of his argument rather than captures by the brilliancy of his rhetoric,” the New York Herald wrote. “His mind is eminently judicial.”

The panel began public hearings on Feb. 1 in the Supreme Court room at the Capitol. (The court didn’t get its own building until 1935.) Justices on the commission didn’t dress in their usual black robes and “look odd without their gowns,” the New York Times observed.

Florida’s four electoral votes were the first up for debate. Bradley allegedly planned to back the legitimacy of the Democratic electors, making Tilden president, a Democratic congressman from New Jersey later alleged, but changed his mind at home that night under pressure from Republican friends. Bradley denied those claims. His vote created an 8-7 majority to accept Florida’s electors for Hayes.

Next up was Louisiana, and all eyes were on Bradley. “He is generally regarded as the man on who the whole thing turns,” the Louisville Courier Journal wrote. The justice again led an 8-7 vote for the eight Hayes electors, augmenting Democratic doubts about his objectivity.

Sure enough, Bradley joined the 8-7 majority to award Hayes one disputed electoral vote in Oregon and seven in South Carolina, effectively electing Hayes president unless Congress rejected the results. Furious Democrats focused their anger on the head of the vile “Bradley Tribunal.” Democratic newspapers sprinkled their pages with epithets about the justice: “The American Judas-Bradley.” “The umpire who stole a Presidency.” “Captain Kidd would have been a better man than Bradley in his place.”

The New York Sun wrote that the Washington Monument should be torn down and the stones piled up again, and “at the top of all put a colossal statue of Joe Bradley, the President-maker,” with “his hand stretched out toward the White House.”

“Somebody tied crape to the doorknob of perjured Bradley’s residence in Washington, and with it a slip on which was written, ‘Justice is dead,’” the San Francisco Examiner reported.

“The abuse heaped upon me” is “almost beyond conception,” Bradley wrote. His son Charles later wrote that his father was “threatened with bodily injury, aye, even to the taking of his life.”

On Feb. 27, the commission sent its rulings to Congress. There was no problem in the Republican-controlled Senate, but late on March 1, House Speaker Samuel Randall (D-Pa.) banged his gavel to head off demands by some angry fellow Democrats to start a filibuster to delay the results. Rep. George Beebe (D-N.Y.) “came climbing over the tops of desks, knocking books and ink bottles on the floor, [and] shook his fist at the speaker,” the Chicago Inter-Ocean wrote.

At 4.05 a.m. on March 2, senators came to the House floor for a joint session of Congress. Five minutes later, the president of the Senate announced Hayes had won the presidency, 185 electoral votes to 184. Hayes received word of his victory by telegram while on a train to Washington. The next day — a day before the official start of his presidency, which fell on a Sunday — he took his first oath of office in the Red Room in the Grant White House.

What wasn’t reported was that allies of Hayes had begun secret meetings with some Southern Democrats. On April 24, President Hayes announced the withdrawal of federal troops from two Southern statehouses as part of what some historians called the Compromise of 1877. It effectively ended federal Reconstruction, which had already been weakened as Democrats took control of eight of the 11 former Confederate states.

Black citizens in the South still pressed to save their rights. Bradley would once again stand in their way. In 1883, he wrote the majority Supreme Court opinion striking down the Civil Rights Act of 1875, opening the door for Jim Crow laws and racial segregation in the South. (In 2021, Bradley’s alma mater, Rutgers University, removed his name from a campus building.)

To avoid another electoral commission fiasco, Congress passed the Electoral Count Act of 1887, requiring the counting of electoral votes in a ceremony presided over by the vice president.

Bradley’s influence rose again on Jan. 6, 2021, when defeated president Donald Trump demanded, without legal basis, that Vice President Mike Pence refuse to accept some states’ electoral votes in the ceremony at the Capitol. In a letter to Congress, Pence promised to honor his constitutional duty, noting: “As Supreme Court Justice Joseph Bradley wrote following the contentious election of 1876, the powers of the President of the Senate are merely ministerial ... He is not invested with any authority for making any investigation outside of the Joint Meeting of the two Houses.” With Trump-backing insurrectionists attacking the Capitol and shouting, “Hang Mike Pence,” the vice president accepted the electoral votes that made Joe Biden president.

In a sense, Joe Bradley was once again our president maker.

Ronald G. Shafer is a former Washington political features editor at the Wall Street Journal.

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This documentary pays tribute to a group of Canadians who took racism to court. They are Canada's unsung heroes in the fight for Black civil rights. Focusing on the 1930s to the 1950s, this film documents the struggle of 6 people who refused to accept inequality. Featured here, among others, are Viola Desmond, a woman who insisted on keeping her seat at the Roseland movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia in 1946 rather than moving to the section normally reserved for the city's Black population, and Fred Christie, who took his case to the Supreme Court after being denied service at a Montreal tavern in 1936. These brave pioneers helped secure justice for all Canadians. Their stories deserve to be told.

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