Decades of African Nova Scotian life put on display in 1983 art exhibit
Henry Bishop spoke to the CBC's Neil Copeland about the photos
In this 1983 episode of Heritage, the CBC's Neil Copeland interviews Henry Bishop about a collection of historical photos of African Nova Scotians at Mount Saint Vincent University's art gallery in Halifax.
The photos were included in an exhibit entitled The Past in Focus.
Bishop, who was born in Weymouth Falls, N.S., was the curator of the Black Cultural Centre in Dartmouth at the time — a position he held from 1983 to 2012.
He curated and helped collect the photographs, which depicted the daily lives of Black Nova Scotians from 1890 to 1933.
The segment begins with a video shot 23 years earlier — in 1960 — of a group singing in Weymouth, N.S., for the CBC Halifax production Land of the Old Songs.
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