Carrie best struggles of immigrants

Growing up in Nova Scotia, Carrie’s childhood was marked by the experience of deep-seated racial discrimination. Despite this difficult environment, her parents encouraged her education and pride in her heritage. As a teenager, Carrie was already writing, often submitting opinion letters to the local newspapers.

She felt strongly about the racist attitudes and restrictions that permeated society and limited her options in life; she was rejected from being able to become a nurse due to her race, and she refused to become a teacher in a segregated school.

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In 1941, at thirty-eight years old, Carrie heard about an incident that started her on her path to becoming a prominent civil rights activist. At the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, several Black teenage girls had been forcibly removed from the cinema after sitting in a ‘white only’ section.

Hearing this, Carrie took her son to the Theatre – where she promptly walked into the main floor Carrie Best - The Canadian Encyclopedia BIH