Save Lincolnville Campaign

[Logikal Ethix]

http://savelincolnville.nspirg.org/index.html

Save Lincolnville Campaign is a campaign to stop another Africville. It is a community-led initiative for the removal of the landfill located within a kilometre of the community of Lincolnville; a fight for environmental justice; and part of a growing movement to oppose the racist attack on African Nova Scotian and First Nation people in this province.


A Brief History of Lincolnville

• Lincolnville was settled by Black Loyalists in 1784, after the 3000 acre “Thomas Brownspriggs” land grant promised to them by Queen Victoria was never honored.

• Black families who were driven from their promised land and moved further inland away from the white population.

• They were forced to become squatters and took claim to a barren rocky piece of land, what is now called the community of Lincolnville.

• In 1941 the first school was constructed, educating children to grade six.

• In 1965, a Consolidated school was constructed in Lincolnville, which was to encompass white children from a neighboring community, however, the Municipalities of Guysborough and Antigonish changed it’s county boundaries to insure that white children would not attend, thus making the school segregated.

• Lincolnville school, although not recorded, was the last school in Canada to “officially” close its doors to segregation, in 1983.

• Since 1974, the Black community of Lincolnville has been fighting against the unconsensual situating of landfills next to their community –placing their health and rights in jeopardy.

• Having to squat for promised land they were driven from, facing differential treatment through the segregation of State institutions, and suffering the consequences of undemocratic decisions that impose environmental burdens on a population, are only symptoms of a much larger cause: racism and, more specifically, the government’s racist policies.
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