Facts and Terms
Believing someone is inferior based on the colour of their skin.
What is Racism?
This was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the 19th century. It was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states and Canada. It had a song connected to it in code so only the slaves and rescuers knew its path.
What is the Underground Railroad?
He is a well known actor who starred in the Avengers as Nick Fury and Star Wars as Mace Windu.
Who is Samuel L. Jackson?
He was the first Black person to be elected to any office in B.C.
Who is Mifflin Gibbs?
A famous black activist, well-known for her part in the Montgomery bus boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Treating people unjustly due to their skin colour, religion, gender or age.
The code name for the Big Dipper in the Underground Railroad song.
What is the Drinking Gourd?
This musician describes himself as having Mohawk and West Indian roots and has been nominated twice for the Juno awards.
Who is Julian Taylor?
The first black woman mayor in North America (elected in 1984).
Who is Daurene Lewis?
A civil rights and women’s rights activist who famously refused to leave the whites-only section in a movie theater.
Who is Viola Desmond?
An idea created to differentiate groups of people based on hair, features and the colour of their skin.
What is Race?
Slavery was finally abolished in the U.S. on this date.
When is passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865?
She is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes.
Who is Kara Walker?
He was the first Black person to be a cabinet minister in the Canadian government in 1979. He was also the first Black Canadian to be lieutenant-governor of a province.
Who is Lincoln Alexander?
The woman who spoke this quote in 1956. "People told me it wasn't a good idea for a girl to be a lawyer, particularly a coloured girl - so I went ahead."
Who is Violet King?
The approximate number of Black people in Canada in the year of 2016.
What is 1.1 million?
She was born into slavery but escaped and journeyed upon 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
A descendant of Black Loyalists who arrived in Canada, this opera singer resides in Fredericton, N.B.
Who is Measha Brueggergosman?
He was the first Canadian sailor and the first Black person to receive the Victoria Cross for bravery in 1859.
Who is William Hall?
The first woman and the first black woman in North America to run a newspaper.
Who is Mary Ann Shadd?
With the population of 1,500 this town had the largest number of free Black people outside of Africa in 1784.
What is Birchtown?
This first Black newspaper in Canada lasted from 1851-1853. It encouraged enslaved people to escape to Canada, helped them find family members, and shared information on getting settled. This paper was put out every other week in what is now Windsor, Ont. by Henry C. Bibb and Mary Bibb.
She is an author, filmmaker and broadcaster. She wrote the book Be Unapologetically You: A Self Love Guide for Women of Color.
Who is Adeline Bird?
She was the first Black Canadian female Member of Parliament in 1993 and the first Black woman to be the Cabinet minister in 2002.
Who is Jean Augusine?
The group led by Ellen Toyer Abbott in the 1840’s, that supplied money to women in need.
What is The Queen Victoria Benevolent Society?