Assignment #6

Mary Ann Shadd started the first integrated school in Canada and was the first female newspaper editor. She then went on and became the first black lawyer in North America." Her most enduring legacy remains that of integration of free men and women who believe that the foundation of a community should be family and friends, not race or colour." quoted by whitepinepictures.com .



She was born in 1823 in Wilmington, Delaware. She moved to Upper Canada in 1851 and became a teacher and an activist in the abolitionist movement. Canada abolished slavery in 1834 and Shadd believed that black people were ready for integration. Shadd set up her own private school which was open to all races. She believed that everyone had the right to education and succeed to their full potential. These were the keys to equality. Mary Ann Shadd's model of tolerance paved the way for integration.

http://www.whitepinepictures.com/seeds/i/5/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Shad_Cary