I can't speak to being a force for change, but I take it and wear it proudly.(Measha BrueggarGosman, n.d.)
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| Photo credit Mat Dunlap |
In this section we wish to highlight the faces and the names of some of the members of Fredericton’s Black community in the 20th and 21st century. To name only a few:
Eldridge Eatman (1880 – 1960), who became a world champion athlete sprinter;
Gerald Carty (1925 - 2008), who flew over 35 missions in Wellington and Lancaster bombers during WWII and was one of the youngest commissioned officers in the RCAF;
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| Esther Taylor & Rev John Melville Burgess on their wedding day at St. Peter’s Church, August 2, 1945 |
American Civil Rights activist Esther Taylor Burgess
(1911 – 2004);
and world renown Canadian opera singer, Measha BrueggarGosman
(b. 1977).