Canadian Historian)
Historian Dorothy Williams is a Montrealer who founded Ethnocultural Diffusions, a non-profit organization, to collect the oral history of Blacks in Montreal and Blacbiblio.com, a business dedicated to the enumeration and on-line dissemination of Canadian research sources. Dorothy has a Master's in History, and is a doctorate in Library and Information Studies from McGill University (her dissertation research was on the history of Black printed publications in Montreal between 1934-2002). Dorothy has written two books devoted to the history of Blacks in Montreal: Blacks in Montreal: 1628-1986 An Urban Demography and The Road to Now: A History of Blacks in Montreal. The latter remains the only chronological study of Blacks on the island of Montreal. Dorothy has been awarded The Mathieu da Costa Award by the Black Coalition of Quebec, and has been featured on the Black History Month Calendar. In 2000 she won the E. J. Josey Scholarship for academic excellence, from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. On November 25, 2002, the government of Quebec awarded Dorothy Le Prix Québécois de la citoyenneté 2002 for "The Anne-Greenup Prize for the fight against racism and the promotion of civic participation".
She stars as Expert (Historian), in Les Mains noires, procès de l'esclave incendiaire (Black Hands), directed by Tetchena Bellange, 2010, Documentary-Fiction, Canada, 2010.
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www.blackhandsfilm.com/bios.html