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
Spatial Coverage
942 Bathurst Street
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/
Alternative Title
(third location)
- Date Added
- July 5, 2018
- Collection
- Islands in the North
- Item Type
- Text
- Tags
- ”Torontoist”, 1980, meeting space, store, Toronto
- Citation
- “Third World Bookstore,” Database - Islands in the North, accessed April 24, 2024, https://items.islandsinthenorth.com/items/show/1416.