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File consists of material, originally housed in a binder, detailing the activities of the Black Working Group over the course of 1992-1993. The contents include contact lists for members, agendas, meeting minutes, reports (including needs assessments), proposals (including ones for a computer literacy program for Black residents of the North End, tutoring service, and others), handwritten notes, a speech by Lynn Jones on the issue of Black unemployed and the establishment of the Working Group, a press release ("The Black Community Takes Matters into its Own Hands"), and other documents. 2016.002.1, Series 2, File 9
File consists of material, originally housed together in a binder, documenting the activities of the Black Working Group over 1994 and 1995. The file contains job advertisements, budgets, attendance lists, flyers for programs, reports of activities, meeting minutes, agendas, terms of reference for the BWG, goals and plans, and other material. 2016.002.1, Series 2, File 10
File consists of material, originally housed together in a binder, concerning the activities of the Black Working Group (BWG). Includes lists of members, reports on funded programs, agendas, meeting minutes (of the core group and various committees), correspondence with BWG members, other reports ("Rationalization Report to the CEC/Black Community Work Group", activity reports, and others), memoranda of association, and other documents. 2016.002.1, Series 2, File 11
Subseries consists of research material collected by Lynn Jones. The subseries consists of 16 files, which are split into two major groups, the first are newspaper clippings documenting major events affecting the Black/African-Canadian community in Nova Scotia (and sometimes Canada more broadly). These files have been sorted by date, ranging from the early 1970s to 2016 (the dates of some are unknown). The second half of the subseries consists of material relating to events, programs, politics, groups of interest to the African Canadian community in Nova Scotia. The materials in that part of the subseries contain articles, magazine clippings, sporting programs, church service programs, and other documents. Some material concerns the Canadian Employment Centre (CEC), the Halifax City Regional Library, education, elections in Nova Scotia, histories, among others. 2016.002.1, Series 3, Subseries 1
Subseries consists of material relating to Black History that focuses less on Nova Scotia, and more on national and international issues.The subseries contains news clippings, pamphlets, reports, student research papers, and other materials. Topics include the slave trade, social issues in various countries (Zambia, Grenada, Ethiopia, etc), and especially South Africa (many of the materials relate to apartheid), 2016.002.1, Series 3, Subseries 2
Subseries consists of six files containing material relating to the Black United Front of Nova Scotia (an organization co-founded by Rocky Jones). The subseries consists of four files of news clippings relating to the BUF's activities and members (organized by decade). A file of publications and reports by/about the BUF (which includes annual reports, by-laws, financial information, a paper on the need for the BUF by Dr. W.P. Oliver, a paper by Julie Sobowale (2009) on the history of BUF and GRASP. And one file of newspapers, primarily early issues of GRASP (Growth, Readiness, Advancement, Self-Determination), with a few later (1980s) newsletters. 2016.002.1, Series 3, Subseries 39