Discrimination
A period of severe racial discrimination against black Canadians.
What is 1998 to 2002?
A civil rights activist in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, he was assassinated in Memphis in 1968.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
You have to respect the first African-American woman to earn an album-of-the-year award.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
These colours are prominent on many African flags.
What are red, gold, and green?
Canada provided these for black Loyalists.
What are opportunities?
This Canadian woman refused to sit in the "coloured" section of a movie theatre; her image is on the new $10 bill.
Who is Viola Desmond?
These African-Americans were the first rap group to appear on Billboard's Top 40.
What is the Sugar Hill Gang?
The number of African flags that follow the red, gold, and green colour pattern.
What is 8?
This is the network of routes and safe houses that helped many slaves escape to the northern United States and Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This Chicago born African/American made history by becoming the first black man to become president in the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
The King of Pop sang a song called "Black or White", and had a skin condition that changed his skin from black to white.
Who is Michael Jackson?
What are unification and peace?
A word that means to deny opportunities or rights to people because of their skin colour or beliefs.
What is discrimination?
This African-American athlete won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in front of a crowd that believed black people were an inferior race.
Who is Jesse Owens?
The legendary abolitionist wrote a song "Follow the Drinking Gourd" to help escaped slaves find their way along the Underground Railroad.
Who is Peg Leg Joe?
The first country to introduce the red-gold-green colour scheme in its flag.
What is Ethiopia?
After this boxer finished fighting in the ring, he fought racism for the rest of his life.
Who is Mohammed Ali?
The year that the first red-gold-green flag was adopted?
What is 1897?