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Boys at my school make fun of me and say I look like a girl, says 12-year-old Harpreet Singh Dhariwal of Thornhill

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Boys at my school make fun of me and say I look like a girl, says 12-year-old Harpreet Singh Dhariwal of Thornhill

Date11/6/1977

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Cooper, David (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Boys at my school make fun of me and say I look like a girl; says 12-year-old Harpreet Singh Dhariwal of Thornhill. It gets me into a lot of fights; I can tell you. Dhariwal; who wears traditional Jura hair knot on head; was one of an estimated 2;000 Asians who protested racism yesterday.

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Race discrimination

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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)

Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0012526F

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