Stanley G. Grizzle, judge and labour union activist

There are so many African-Canadians that have changed the world not only for African-Canadians, but for everyone, and that is why i have chosen to write about Stanley G. Grizzle. Stanley G. Grizzle was born 1918 in Toronto, Ontario to his parents who were Jamaican immigrants, he was the oldest of seven children. While working as a porter, Grizzle became active in the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP)a trade union whose leader was the charismatic African American A. Philip Randolph. Upon his return to Canada after serving in Europe during World War II, Grizzle became more active in the union. He was elected president of his union local, and pushed the CPR to open the management ranks to African-Canadians. He also got involved in other causes .causes and was a leader in Canada's nascent civil rights era of the 1950s, working with the Joint Labour Committee to Combat Racial Intolerance.In 1959, Grizzle and Jack White were the first Black Canadian candidates to run for election to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (the predecessor to the New Democratic Party). In 1960, Grizzle went to work for the Ontario Labour Relations Board, and in 1978 he was appointed a by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Grizzle received the Order of Ontario in 1990 from Lieutenant-Governor Lincoln Alexander because of his work with the (BSCP) and for his civil rights work and Grizzle recently received the Stanley Ferguson Lifetime Accomplishment award and received a grant of 25 shares of Coca-Cola stock. The way that this man changed Canada was that he decided that he wanted black people to have rights to and he got them those rights and now African-Canadians are treated like equals not only because of him but because of all the black rights activists to ever stand up.

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