Race hatred still a fact of life in Canada [Letter]

When Canadians picture hooded members of the KKK, marching and burning a cross, they immediately visualize Mississippi or Alabama. Few could imagine that happening in downtown Oakville, Ont., but it did on Feb. 28,1930, to protest the anticipated marriage of a local white woman to black man.

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