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Speakers for the Dead

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Speakers for the Dead
2000, director: Jennifer Holness, David Sutherland

Film (49:47)

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Black people knew they had to stay off the streets in the evening in some Ontario towns. Historian Elise Harding Davis explains that this nineteenth and twentieth century requirement was known as the "sundown law." Helen Miller, a descendant of Priceville, Ontario residents, observes that racism was prevalent in Canada, but was more "undercover," as compared with the United States.