The Road Taken is a 1996 documentary about the experiences of Black Canadian sleeping car porters who worked on Canada's railways from the early 1900s through the 1960s.
[1] Directed by Selwyn Jacob and written and narrated by Frederick Ward, the film explores how racism prevented Blacks from being promoted, until porter Lee Williams took his fight to the union in 1955 and successfully claimed discrimination under Canada's Fair Employment Practices Act.
[2] The film features the music of jazz musician Joe Sealy, whose father was a porter.
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