The films and videorecordings listed below are owned by York University Libraries and available for academic use by the York University community. HAIR 42 min.
Black women discuss the issues of hair styles and their own images of beauty and self.
National Film Board of Canada Recounts the significant role women have played in developing and preserving a sense of pride and identity among Nova Scotia's black community. The American abolitionist and educator spent ten year in Windsor. Her views on integrated schools were opposed by Henry Bibb, local black leader and newspaper editor, who believed in separate institutions. She published her own paper and set up a school, before returning to the United States in the 1860s'. Scott, a former Klu Klux Klan member, speaks of his experiences at one of their concerts.