Carrie Mae Best, OC, ONS (nee Prevoe; March 4, 1903 – July 24, 2001) was a Canadian journalist and social activist.
She purchased two tickets for the downstairs seating of the theatre and attempted to watch a film with her son James Calbert Best.
However, the experience helped motivate Carrie Best to found The Clarion in 1946, the first black-owned and published Nova Scotia newspaper.
Her son James Calbert Best, who helped found The Clarion, became a union activist, senior public servant and high commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago.
In 1974, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada, "in recognition of her zealous work as writer and broadcaster.