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{{Short description|American-Canadian social worker and sociologist (1914–1993)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Wilson A. Head
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| nationality = [[Americans|American]]<br />[[Canadians|Canadian]] {{Small| from 1965}}
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| occupation = {{flatlist|
* Sociologist * professor * activist }}
| alma_mater = [[Tuskegee University|Tuskegee Institute]]<br /><small>([[Bachelor's degree#Education|B.Sc.Ed.]] 1940)</small><br />[[University of Georgia]]<br /><small>([[Master of Social Work|MSW]] 1942)</small><br />[[Ohio State University]]<br /><small>([[Doctorate|Ph.D.]] 1958)</small>
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==Early life==
Wilson Adonijah Head was born on September 30, 1914, in [[Milner, Georgia|Milner]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]. He "was the son of a Georgia sharecropper, Evander Head (1892–1925), and of Evelyn Whittle (1898–1981), the eldest of five children";<ref name="Turner">''Encyclopedia of Canadian Social Work'', by Francis J. Turner, p. 168. Social service Canada Encyclopedias, 2005. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2I 3C5, www.wlupress.wlu.ca</ref><ref name="ancestry">{{cite web|url=http://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/records/wilson-adonijah-head_173862106|title=Wilson Adonijah Head 1914-1993|website=Ancestry.ca|accessdate=November 23, 2017}}</ref> siblings Frank, Marvin, Glenn, and
==Biography==
In the 1930s,
He worked at times with the [[Congress of Racial Equality]] (CORE) and the [[National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]] (NAACP).<ref name="Turner"/> From 1943 to 1948, he was director of community development and community organization at [[Flanner House]] in [[Indianapolis]], which served poor and indigent Black people.<ref name="Turner"/><ref name="flannerhouse">{{cite web|url=http://www.flannerhouse.com/opening_doors/Home/default.aspx|website=flannerhouse.com|title=opening_doors/Home/default|accessdate=November 23, 2017|archive-date=October 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161022024453/http://www.flannerhouse.com/opening_doors/Home/default.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> "In 1981, then president of the National Black Coalition of Canada,<ref name="Wilson Head Fought">''Toronto Star'', (Toronto, Ont.), (AM Edition), October 8, 1993: A7. "Wilson Head Fought Hard for Equality"</ref><ref name="Editorial"/> he testified before the Joint House Senate Committee on the Canadian Constitution".<ref name="archives.library.yorku.ca">{{cite web|url=http://archives.library.yorku.ca/exhibits/show/pushingbuttons/black--caribbean-community/national-black-coalition-of-ca|title=York University Libraries
"He lectured in Social Work at the [[University of Windsor]], 1960–1964, [[University of Michigan]], 1962–1964, Wayne State University, 1963–1965 and Sir Williams College, Chicago, 1961–1964. He was involved with a number of organizations including the Canadian Civil Liberties Association of Toronto as Vice-President in 1967, The National Welfare Council founding member and National Black Coalition of Canada as Chairman and President from 1977 to 1982
http://www.archivescanada.ca/english/search/ItemDisplay.asp
In 1988
==Assault==
On June 26, 1980,
==Ideology==
==Death==
==See also==
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==Legacies==
* Founding chairman, Urban Alliance on Race Relations (
* Co-author of The Ontario Human Rights Code, 1962.<ref>The Evolution of Human Rights Policy in Ontario, Author(s): R. Brian Howe, Source: Canadian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 24, No. 4, (Dec., 1991), pp. 783-802, published by: Canadian Political Science Association, page 795. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3229307</ref>
* Founded and was the first president of the National Black Coalition of Canada, 1978, which dissolved in 1982, because, he said, "blacks were too busy fighting blacks".<ref name="OBITUARY"/><ref name="Wilson Head Fought"/>
* Autobiography, Life on the Edge: Experiences in "Black and White" in North America, by Wilson A. Head, 1993. Foreword by the late Honourable Lincoln Alexander, and an epilogue by Madame Rosalie Silberman Abella.<ref name="Memoirs"/>
* Founding Chairperson of the School of Social Work, York University, Toronto, Ontario, 1966.<ref name="Turner"/>
* A scholarship in
* "Who Gets the Work: A test of racial discrimination in employment", researchers F. Henry and E. Ginzberg, and "No Discrimination Here", Toronto Employers and the Multi-Racial Work Force", researchers B. Billingsley and L. Muszynski, joint publications by UARR and the Social Planning Council of Metro Toronto, 1985. These two research studies led to equal opportunity employment (EOE) law that is now the accepted practice in Canada today.<ref>Tania Das Gupta, Racism and Paid Work, University of Toronto Press, Inc. 2008. {{ISBN|978-1-44260-118-5}}</ref>
==Education==
* Booker T. Washington High School, Atlanta, Georgia, 1933.
* Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, Bachelor of Science in
* University of Georgia, Master's degree in Social Work, 1942.<ref name="OBITUARY"/>
* Ohio State University, PhD in
==Honors and awards==
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* Named in ''Who's Who in Black Canada 2: Black Success and Black Excellence in Canada: A Contemporary Directory.''<ref name="Williams">Who's who in Black Canada 2: Black success and Black excellence in Canada: a contemporary directory. By Dawn P. Williams, 1961 - Format: book. December 1, 2006, page 218.</ref>
* Harry Jerome Award, 1988 for community service.<ref name="Citizens urged">The Montreal Gazette, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. August 9, 1968, page 20. "Citizens urged to protest against 'arbitrary' arrests".</ref><ref name="Letter">''Toronto Star'', Toronto, Ont., Canada. July 5, 1992. Letter, page A.12, "June Callwood no racist, attests Wilson Head".</ref><ref>Toronto Star, March 13, 1988, p. A.4 "Professor's battle with racism recognized by Jerome Award"</ref>
* Honorary Doctor of Laws degree, York University, Toronto, Ontario, 1982.<ref name="Wilson Head Fought"/><ref name="yorku">{{cite web|url=http://secretariat.info.yorku.ca/senate/sub-committee-on-honorary-degrees-and-ceremonials/honorary-degree-recipients|title=Honorary Degree Recipients
* Memorial Award for Outstanding Work in Antiracism, Peace and Human Rights, Atkinson College, York University, Toronto, Ontario.<ref name="Williams"/>
* Toronto Onyx Lions Club – "A Tribute to Dr. Wilson Head", November 1989.<ref name="Hamlin Grange 2015"/><ref>Toronto Star, Deborah McNorgan, Nov. 26, 1989, A.3 "Activist Wilson Head cited for easing racial tensions".</ref>
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==Works==
* (1969) ''Poverty: A Major Issue Confronting Canadians'' <ref>Centre for Urban and Community Studies, Univ of Toronto, Wilson A. Head, A paper prepared by the Task Force on Poverty to the Harrison Liberal Conference, Harrison Hot Springs, November, 1969</ref>
* (1975) ''The Black Presence in the Canadian Mosaic'' <ref name="Canadian mosaic">''The Black Presence in the Canadian Mosaic: A Study of Perception and the Practice of Discrimination Against Blacks in Metropolitan Toronto'' submitted to The Ontario Human Rights Commission by Wilson A Head; Ontario Human Rights Commission. State or province government publication. Publisher: Ontario : Ontario Human Rights Commission, 1975.</ref>
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==External links==
* <!-- 27. --> [http://www.learnquebec.ca/en/content/curriculum/social_sciences/features/missingpages/unit8/u8p170.htm The Black Community in the History of Québec and Canada] – Unit 8: The Post War Years – Dr. Wilson A. Head
* <!-- 27. --> [http://blackhistorycanada.ca/timeline.php?id=1900 1975: Head Founds Urban Alliance on Race Relations] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128013005/http://blackhistorycanada.ca/timeline.php?id=1900 |date=2016-01-28 }}
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