Pearleen Oliver
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Dr. Pearleen Oliver | |
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| Born | Althea Pearleen Borden 1917 Cooks Cove, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Died | July 24, 2008 (aged 91) |
| Known for | Black Activism, Church Leadership, Co-founder of the Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Educational Activism |
| Spouse(s) | William Pearly Oliver (married 1936) |
| Children | William P., Philip W. B., Dr. Leslie H., Jules R., and Stephen D. |
Dr. Pearleen Oliver was an activist, church leader, and Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters[1] who publicly criticized Canada’s undemocratic politics and anti-Black racism.[2]
Church Programs
The church was the cultural hub and social nucleus of historical Black communities.[3] Oliver co-led Halifax’s Cornwallis Street African Baptist Church, Nova Scotia’s premier late 19th and mid 20th century Black church[4] and hub for many lower socioeconomic status neighborhoods.[5] Oliver organized church socials for local girls to share games, snacks, music, and Bible stories.[6] Oliver also expanded the African United Baptist Association in 1953 to include a Women’s Institute for Black women to gather annually and discuss racialized socioeconomic problems and their solutions.[7] These women-run church clubs also raised money, through social functions like bake sales, to combat localized social inequities.[8]
Anti-Black Discrimination in Nurse Education
After continuously, publicly denouncing Canada’s exclusion of Black women from nursing,[9] Halifax’s Children’s Hospital had Oliver select two Black applicants for admittance and training.[10] Oliver selected Gwenyth Barton and Ruth Bailey, who had been rejected from multiple hospitals due to their race despite their educational qualifications.[11] Oliver personally informed them of their admittance and invited Bailey, a Torontonian,[12] to stay with her family until Oliver arranged Bailey’s permanent room with another family of the Cornwallis Street Church.[13] Oliver’s church network, public speaking, and written correspondence[14] helped Barton and Bailey become the first Black students to attend and graduate nursing school in Canada in 1948.[15]
References
- ↑ Saint Mary's University (Halifax, N. S. ) (1990-10-28). "Convocation 1990 Fall".
- ↑ Oliver, Pearleen. "Nova Scotia Women's Oral History Project Nova Scotia Archives Sound 1995-009 Transcripts MF 420-0: Tape 1, Side 2". Nova Scotia Archives (Audio recording). Interviewed by Marjory Whitelaw. 26:30. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
- ↑ Canada, National Film Board of, Black Mother Black Daughter, retrieved 2023-03-27
- ↑ Morrison, James (1982). "Your World: International Education Centre Newsletter Vol. 4 No. 1 1982". Saint Mary's University: Patrick Power Library. p. 10. Archived from the original on 1982. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|archive-date=(help) - ↑ Oliver, Pearleen. "Nova Scotia Women's Oral History Project Nova Scotia Archives Sound 1995-009 Transcripts MF 420-0: Tape 3, Side 2". Nova Scotia Archives (Audio recording). Interviewed by Marjory Whitelaw. 8:20. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
- ↑ Oliver, Pearleen. "Nova Scotia Women's Oral History Project Nova Scotia Archives Sound 1995-009 Transcripts MF 420-0: Tape 3, Side 2". Nova Scotia Archives (Audio recording). Interviewed by Marjory Whitelaw. 14:00. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
- ↑ Oliver, Pearleen. "Nova Scotia Women's Oral History Project Nova Scotia Archives Sound 1995-009 Transcripts MF 420-0: Tape 3, Side 2". Nova Scotia Archives (Audio recording). Interviewed by Marjory Whitelaw. 24:00. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
- ↑ Archives, Nova Scotia. "Nova Scotia Women's Oral History Project Nova Scotia Archives Sound 1995-009 Transcripts MF 420-0: Interview PDF Transcript 1". Nova Scotia Archives (Typed interview transcript). Interviewed by Marjory Whitelaw. p. 16. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
- ↑ Saint Mary's University (Halifax, N. S. ) (1990-10-28). "Convocation 1990 Fall".
- ↑ Oliver, Pearleen. "Nova Scotia Women's Oral History Project Nova Scotia Archives Sound 1995-009 Transcripts MF 420-0: Tape 2, Side 1". Nova Scotia Archives (Audio recording). Interviewed by Marjory Whitelaw. 7:25. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
- ↑ Oliver, Pearleen. "Nova Scotia Women's Oral History Project Nova Scotia Archives Sound 1995-009 Transcripts MF 420-0: Tape 2, Side 1". Nova Scotia Archives (Audio recording). Interviewed by Marjory Whitelaw. 8:40. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
- ↑ Flynn, Karen (2018). "'Hotel Refuses Negro Nurse': Gloria Clarke Baylis and the Queen Elizabeth Hotel". Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. p. 284 – via Project MUSE.
- ↑ Oliver, Pearleen. "Nova Scotia Women's Oral History Project Nova Scotia Archives Sound 1995-009 Transcripts MF 420-0: Tape 2, Side 1". Nova Scotia Archives (Audio recording). Interviewed by Marjory Whitelaw. 13:00. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
- ↑ Flynn, Karen (2018). "'Hotel Refuses Negro Nurse': Gloria Clarke Baylis and the Queen Elizabeth Hotel". Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. p. 285 – via Project MUSE.
- ↑ Flynn, Karen (2018). "'Hotel Refuses Negro Nurse': Gloria Clarke Baylis and the Queen Elizabeth Hotel". Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. p. 284 – via Project MUSE.
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