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A Salute to Gloria Clarke Baylis: Canadian Human Rights Pioneer The hero’s not abundantly obvious Often.

She’s proud, but magnanimous: A beauty, yes, but indescribably Angry.

The reason?

Her polite fury Is the only credible riposte to the Queen Elizabeth Hotel’s irrevocably obscene Rejection of her—Gloria Clarke Baylis’s— Application to be one of two nurses In September 1964.

She submitted Her credentials, but a hotel aide committed “Perjury,” lying that the jobs were filled.
Worse: Her application wasn’t kept.

White as blank verse, This dude made Montréal appear a City Of Segregation—racial and linguistic.

Pity Gloria Baylis?

Nope!

Bajan by birth, she’d always Championed Equality.

She chose to fight the disgrace Of the then-Hilton hotel’s act of discrimination.

She telephoned the Negro Citizenship Association, Whose aid included lawyer Gerald Charness, He of B’Nai B’Rith, of ange-augmented brightness.
At the 1965 trial, the Hilton chain said, “We’re ignorant of what our underling did; And still, maybe he was right, since Mrs. Baylis Speaks only English.” But advocate Charness Revealed that Baylis had worked years in French As a nurse, and he dug at Hilton as if digging a trench.

Affirming the hotel’s racism wasn’t a once-only show, Charness had Baylis stand, declare, “I am a Negro!” Thus, she clarified that her experience was Racism— And not due to lack of skills or lack of bilingualism.
Indeed, she was exceptionally bilingual.

But a twisted tongue had been used by the hotel.

Given the evidence, Judge Marcel Gaboury had to find For the plaintiff, namely Gloria Baylis.

He fined Hilton only a token amount.

But the fact is, Heroic was Mrs. Gloria Clarke Baylis, In being the face of Her Majesty The Queen Versus The Queen Elizabeth Hotel.

Obscene Is the irony!

But by taking on Hilton of Canada, Gloria Baylis took a historic step.
Her bravura Stand saw her triumph in Canada’s first test-case Against racial prejudice in employment.

Erase This glory?

No, never more!

She’s not nameless, This heroine of Equality, namely, Gloria Baylis.

--George Elliott Clarke 7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate (2016-17)