Interview with Kathy Grant
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Public historian and founder of the Legacy Voices Institute, Kathy Grant briefly discusses her academic history, military career and her inspiration to become a Historian: her father, Owen Rowe. Kathy describes her father's life, education, military career, and activism. She speaks about her father's involvement in the West Indian Domestic Scheme (1955–1967), an immigration program that encouraged young women from the Caribbean to come to Canada as domestics, and his collection of historical materials that document the black community. Kathy also describes the Domestic Scheme in detail and comments on the work of other activists, including Donald Moore, founder of the Toronto-based Negro Citizenship Association in the 1950s.