Charles Daniels (activist)
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Charles Daniels (activist)
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Charles Daniels was a Black Canadian working as a porter supervisor with the CPR at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1914, he launched a $1,000 discrimination lawsuit against the Sherman Grand theatre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, when the management refused to honour his ticket for floor seating in the whites-only section to see a production of King Lear. Charles Daniels was a civil rights activist that came to the Canadian prairies as part of the poorly documented wave of African-American
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Black Canadian activist and porter
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Daniels_(activist)
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2023-04-06T07:10:09Z
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