African Nova Scotian Teaching and Learning
"William Hall, VC: First Colored Man to Win Highest Award for Bravery"
Copy - Newspaper clipping by Roland H. Sherwood in Halifax 'Mail Star".
Reference William Hall, VC Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 1499 number 156
Questions to Consider
- When do you think the document was written?
- Who do you think wrote the document?
- Why do you think the document was written
- Who do you think received the document?
- Who do you think this document was written for?
- What information do you think this document provides? What do you think it tells us about the past?
- How do you think the document reflects the attitudes and values of the time period in which it was written?
- What impact do you think the document had at the time it was written?
- Do you think those were different impacts for different people?