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It was a quiet passing for a man who helped shaped race relations in Canada. Bromley Armstrong, a trade unionist, civil rights leader and community organizer, died on Friday. He was 92.
It didn’t take long for Bromley Armstrong to encounter racism in Canada, and it didn’t take him long to use those encounters as forces for change. In 1948, a year after arriving in this ...
Opinion: Bromley Armstrong—who passed away on Aug. 17—helped end the segregation of Canada’s public spaces. Why don’t more Canadians know his name? In January of 1991, when I was in the ...
Canadian civil rights leader and trade unionist Bromley Armstrong has died, according to the Urban Alliance on Race Relations, an organization he help found. Armstrong, who was named to the Order ...
DURHAM — A racist slight pushed Bromley Armstrong on a path that influences Ontario to this day. In 1948, shortly after arriving in Canada from his native Jamaica, he was making $1.25 an hour working ...
Rolling with Bromley Armstrong was like rolling with Elvis. I found that out when the civil rights leader and union activist was honoured by the Toronto & York Region Labour Council in May and ...
Dundas Square, at 5:10 p.m., hundreds of protesters marched, outraged. Voices crying, “Shame!” Signs questioning, “Who will protect us from our protectors?” Bodies wearing office clothes, casual ...