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Wilson A. Head (September 30, 1914 – October 7, 1993) was an American/Canadian sociologist and community planner known for his work on race relations and human rights in the United States, Canada and other parts of the world. ==Biography== Wilson A. Head was born on September 30, 1914 in Milner, Georgia. He "was the son of a Georgia sharecropper, the eldest of five children".〔Encyclopedia of Canadian Social Work, by Francis J. Turner, p. 168. Social service Canada Encyclopedias, 2005. Wilfred Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2I 3C5, www.wlupress.wlu.ca〕 "He grew up poor in the small black community of Milner, near Atlanta; his father died when he was 10, but his mother stressed the importance of education, telling him he would have to be twice as smart as whites to compete".〔''The Globe and Mail'', Toronto, Ont, Canada. October 8, 1993: A.20. OBITUARY: "Wilson Head led struggle in Canada for racial justice".〕 Dr. Head graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in 1933 and from Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama in 1940 with a Bachelor of Science in Education, by which time he had been named in Who's Who in American Universities and Colleges. In his memoirs, ''A Life on the Edge: Experiences in Black and White in North America'',〔Life on the Edge : Experiences in Black and White in North America : Memoirs of Wilson Head. Publisher: Dr. Wilson Head Institute, Toronto , 1995, ISBN 0-9680066-0-4.〕 Dr. Head describes the poverty and injustices to which Black people in the "Deep South" were subjected, and which he experienced in his youth. In the 1930s, Dr. Head took part in a series of "sit-ins" on restaurants and bars, and protested against barbers, shop keepers, and movie house owners who would not serve blacks years before the civil rights movement began.〔〔Wilson Head's Life on the Edge left lasting impact: Daily News Retrieved from htp://search.proquest.com/docview/342779527?accountid=14771 Saunders, Charles. Daily News (N.S. ) 16 June 1996: 24. Saunders, C. (1996, Jun 16).〕 He helped to desegregate a golf course in Windsor.〔〔''The Toronto Star'', February 3, 1993, A1 "Blacks must look at broader issues, activist urges",〕〔Toronto Onyx Lions Club - "A Tribute to Dr. Wilson Head", November 1989 - "Profile of Wilson Head" in Onyx Tribute book by Hamlin Grange. Archives Canada, Vol. 15, retrieved October 1, 2015.〕 He worked at times with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).〔 He was director of community development and community organization at Flanner House in Indianapolis, which served poor and indigent Black people.〔 "In 1981, then president of the National Black Coalition of Canada,〔〔 he testified before the Joint House Senate Committee on the Canadian Constitution".〔http://archives.library.yorku.ca/exhibits/show/pushingbuttons/black--caribbean-community/national-black-coalition-of-ca〕 He was on the executive of The Metro Committee on Race Relations and Policing.〔http://urbanalliance.ca/2015/08/04/uarr-40th-anniversity-celebration-resisting-racism-past-present-and-future/〕 Dr. Head moved to Windsor, Canada in 1959 "to get my children away from a racist society".〔 In the US, he had been director of Chicago's Parkway Community House, and director of the state of Ohio's Juvenile Diagnostic Centre. When he came to Canada, he became the executive Director of the Windsor Group Therapy Project. In 1965 he became the Director of Research and Planning for the Social Planning Council of Metropolitan Toronto.〔The Montreal Gazette, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Sept. 27, 1968, page 45. "White Canada is warned of red power".〕 "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, 1967, National Welfare Council founding member and National Black Coalition of Canada, chairman and president, 1977-1982. Dr. Head became the first chairman of the Bachelor of Social Work Program at Atkinson College, York University".〔Wilson A. Head, FONDS, MG 31, D 148, Finding Aid No. 1458. http://www.archivescanada.ca/english/search/ItemDisplay.asp?〕 In 1988 Dr. Head was asked to participate in the Donald Marshall Inquiry Commission in Nova Scotia.〔 Among his numerous articles and research studies, most prominent are ''The Black Presence in the 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.〕 and ''Discrimination Against Blacks in Nova Scotia: The Criminal Justice System''.〔Discrimination against blacks in Nova Scotia : the criminal justice system by Wilson A Head; Donald H J Clairmont; Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall, Jr., Prosecution (N.S.) State or province government publication, Publisher: (N.S. ) : The Commission, 1989.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wilson A. Head」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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