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1969-2003 (Creation)
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- Barkley, Jacqueline
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50 cm of textual records
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Jackie Barkley was a social worker in Halifax who practiced, taught and wrote in areas such as child welfare, mental health, and adolescent counseling. She started out as a community organizer in the North End of Halifax, and assisted in the development of anti-poverty programs, welfare rights and tenants organizations.Ms. Barkley was an active member in many social justice organizations, most prominently:
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the Metro Coalition for a Non Racist Society - an advocacy group of African Nova Scotian, Aboriginal and new Canadian communities who gave presentations on racism and white privilege, and published the book "Racism: Whose Problem?";
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Nova Scotia Coalition Against the KKK, a grassroots multi-ethnic group that sprang up in the early 1980s to confront the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in Canada;
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the Social Policy Review Committee which was an umbrella group of Nova Scotia social workers, advocacy groups, labour and consumer groups;
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the Municipal Action Committee which was active in the 1991 municipal elections promoting public participation and social justice issues.
As a parent and resident of the North End, Barkley was also very involved with St. Joseph's A. McKay elementary school.
Her publications include chapters in Power and Resistance: Critical Thinking About Canadian Social Issues , Daily Meaning: Counternarratives of Teachers’ Work , and a commentary in the November 2009 issue of the “Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry”.
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Fonds consists of of records created or compiled by Jackie Barkley through her study of and involvement in social issues and organizations, especially those dealing with anti-racism, municipal action, anti-poverty, child care and women’s issues. The records document social struggles for better day care, education and strengthening the black community in the Halifax Region. Barkley's involvment organizing Peace in Biafra Day in 1969, and with the Municipal Action Committee, the Nova Scotia Coalition Against the KKK, and Parents for a Model School at St. Joseph's - Alexander McKay School are particularly well documented. Records also document her research and work as a social worker and provide related documentation from groups including: the Black United Front, Metro Coalition for a Non-Racist Society, Housing for People Coalition, Anti-Poverty Network, and Community Advocates for Rights with Responsibilities among others.
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Fonds was donated by Jackie Barkley in 2010.
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Nova Scotia Archives holds the records of the Black United Front.