Recipients of the 2024 Student Leadership Awards for EDI in Research include Anna Beneteau, Madeline Jones, Willow Key, and Fallon Mitchell.
A new resource of the Leddy Library provides a gateway to materials of local Black history.
Teacher candidates in the Windsor Underground Railroad Initiative course viewed murals of Black history during a field trip to the McDougall Street Corridor in downtown Windsor, with a tour led by history student Willow Key.
The EDI Awards Celebration will celebrate seven honorees on April 3.
The EDI Awards Celebration will celebrate seven honorees on April 3.
Delegates to the Amherstburg Regular Missionary Baptist Association at Windsor’s First Baptist Church. Photo by Alvin McCurdy, courtesy of the Archives of Ontario.
In the first half of the 20th century, Windsor was home to a dynamic Black community located in the metropolitan core. Situated east of the downtown commercial district, the McDougall Street Corridor was a mostly self-sufficient African Canadian community bounded loosely by Riverside Drive, Goyeau Street, Giles Street, and Howard Avenue.
This historic neighbourhood emerged during the mid-19th century as African American freedom seekers and free people of colour crossed the Detroit River in search of refuge from enslavement and oppression.
Exploring a section of the Grand Marais drain is part of the Windsor-Essex Jane’s Walk Festival, this weekend and next.
The digital archive “We Were Here” documents the history of Windsor’s McDougall Street corridor.
History student Willow Key will discuss McDougall Street Corridor in a free public presentation Wednesday, Feb. 8.
Lana Talbot and Irene Moore Davis flank history student Willow Key, whose research is at the heart of a project to tell the story of the McDougall Street Corridor.
A ceremony unveiling the statue of Mary Ann Shadd will take place Thursday.
