“Pickets Parade at Dance Studio.” The Globe and Mail. March 20, 1947.
Theme: Legislation and Protest
Date: March 20, 1947
Type: Newspaper Article
Name: “Picket Parade at Dance Studio”
Originating Collection:
Description: One of a selection of clippings that demonstrate the variety of ways that Black people were denied entry to: dance and concert venues even when Black artists were on stage; dance classes when dance studios were teaching social dances derived from cultural practices of the African Diaspora; and social dance venues for participating in racialized dances such as the jive or jitterbug.
Text from clipping:
Pickets Parade At Dance Studio
A dozen pickets paraded with placards protesting against alleged racial discrimination last night outside the premises of the Arthur Murray Dancing Studio on Young St.
Douglas Hulse, Toronto chairman of the National Federation of Labor Youth, said his organization had called the picketing demonstration in protest against the dancing school having allegedly barred two Negroes who had applied for dancing lessons.