Ms. Jones and her husband, Burnley (Rocky) Jones, created the Nova Scotia Project, an activist movement that led to the Black United Front, a group that challenged the racism and poverty in the province
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Tracey Jones-Grant, the oldest of five children, said her mother’s “voice and touch were on many things” out of the public eye, including the formation of early civil-rights groups alongside her husband, Burnley Jones in the 1960s and 70s.The couple separated later in life, but friends say they remained friends up to Mr. Jones’s death in 2013, family friends say.
Family members say while Mr. Jones was the public voice of the movement, it was often Ms. Jones who sat on the committee gatherings in their living room, and who would carefully review and even craft public statements. In the early 1990s, Ms. Jones sat on a liaison committee with the police that helped encourage the training and hiring of black officers in a largely white force that had a tense relationship with the black community.
“Joan was the power behind the throne. It was something we all understood from Day 1, and I was there from Day 1,” he said.Her quiet leadership within the organizations was consistent with the behind-the-scene role black women played in most of the community’s organizations, he said.
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