Hogan’s Alley, Black Vancouver, and Public Memory

Sponsored by the Vancouver Historical Society, guest speaker Wayde Compton discusses the historical presence of the black community in Vancouver.

Black people have been in Vancouver since its earliest days, but the closest thing the city had to a centralized black neighbourhood was in what is now Strathcona in the early to mid-twentieth century. Professor Compton will discuss details of the community, its prominent individuals, social conditions, collective actions, and important institutions, with an eye to the recent memorialization work being done to link the community, and specifically its legacy at Hogan’s Alley, to the present.

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