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Born July 21, 1926, in Toronto to shopkeepers, Jewison studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music and Malvern Collegiate Institute in Toronto before serving in the Canadian navy during World War II. While on a 60-day leave, he hitchhiked around the southern United States during the Jim Crow era, witnessing segregation up close for the first time.

Johanson, who was a registered nurse, opened one of Toronto's first birth control clinics in 1970 at her daughter's high school, Don Mills Collegiate Institute.

The training school would merge with Cookman Institute of Jacksonville, Fla., in 1923, to become the Daytona-Cookman Collegiate Institute, which in 1931 was renamed Bethune-Cookman College.

The party also helped establish the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute, later renamed Virginia State University.

In Institute, Katherine’s older siblings, and then Katherine, attended the high school associated with the West Virginia Collegiate Institute, a historically black institution that became West Virginia State College and is now West Virginia State University.