It started quietly when a group of Caribbean students, strangers in a cold new land, began to suspect their professor of racism. It ended in the most explosive student uprising Canada had ever known. Over four decades later, Ninth Floor reopens the file on the infamous Sir George Williams sit-in – a watershed moment in Canadian race relations and one of the most contested episodes in the nation’s history. Can we make peace with the past? What lessons have we learned? What really happened up there on the 9th floor?

Poster: Ninth Floor Presentation_ June 11_18

Speaker: Senator Anne Cools and Dr. Rodney John
Date: Monday, June 11, 2018
Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am
Location: Senior Common Room, 140 McLaughlin College

For further information, please contact Vicky Carnevale at: x: 33824 or vcarneva@yorku.ca

Hosted by the Office of the Head of McLaughlin College, Department of Sociology, LA&PS.