Third World Bookstore
Dublin Core
Title
Third World Bookstore
Description
"'The bookstore... which the militant radical and railway porter Leonard Johnston had opened with his wife Gwendolyn less than a year earlier... specialized in books on the history and culture of Africa and its diaspora/ black literature and volumes on radical politics. The store’s purpose was to enable the local black community to learn about themselves.'"
Source
Date
Coverage
Toronto
Bibliographic Citation
”Kevin Plummer. "Historicist: Third World Books and Crafts" Torontoist. February 5, 2015. https://torontoist.com/2017/02/historicist-third-world-books-and-crafts-2/”
Spatial Coverage
70 Walton Street
- Date Added
- July 4, 2018
- Collection
- Islands in the North
- Item Type
- Text
- Tags
- ”Torontoist”, 1965, meeting space, store, Toronto
- Citation
- “Third World Bookstore,” Database - Islands in the North, accessed February 27, 2021, http://items.islandsinthenorth.com/items/show/1414.