African Heritage
Canada's first and only all-Black battalion
What is No. 2 Construction Battalion
Founding member of the Association of Black Social Workers (ABSW) which helps to address the needs of marginalized citizens, especially those of African descent
Who is Senator Dr. Wanda Thomas-Bernard
The ANS community boxer, Sam Langford, comes from.
What is Weymouth Falls?
He said, "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Muhammad Ali's original name
What is Cassius Clay?
The year Black History Month began in Canada
What is 1926?
World renowned, Black Canadian Opera Singer, who achieved international fame.
Who is Portia White?
What is Africville?
The record, Rapper's Delight, became the first commercially successful record by this rap band.
Who is the Sugarhill Gang?
Best known for being the first black player in the National Hockey League, as a winger for the Boston Bruins
Who is Willie O'Ree?
The experience of this freedom seeker who escaped Canada in 1830 was the subject of this famous novel.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
A political activist in the areas of human rights, race and poverty. Established the Transition Year Program, Black United Front, and created the Dalhousie Law School Indigenous Black and Mi'kmaw Program
Who is Rocky Jones?
The ANS Community is the home of the first all-Black fire station in Canada. It was established in 1966 through community efforts to address discrimination in fire service delivery.
What is Hammond's Plains?
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
African American women gymnast who is considered one of the sport's greatest athlete's. Having won 25 World Champion medals, most decorated in history of Gymnastics World Championships.
Who is Simone Biles?
Name this popular cultural festival in Toronto with all common West Indies Heritage.
What is Caribana?
Who is Carrie Best?
The ANS community is the location of the Roseland Theatre where Viola Desmond refused to budge from her main-floor seat to balcony seating reserved for Black people.
What is New Glasgow?
This Act, signed in 1946, by President Lyndon B Johnson, made it legal for Black people to be denied service based on race, color, and religion or face segregation.
What is The Civil Rights Act
Called "The Greatest Fighter Nobody Knows," and is considered by many boxing historians as the greatest fighter of all times.
Who is Sam Langford?
What is The American Revolutionary War?
Who is William Hall?
This ANS community is where the descendents of the Jamaican Maroon reside.
What is North Preston?
Name the movie, first African American woman to win an Oscar (Haddie McDaniels), wasn't permitted to attend the premiere for.
What is Gone With The Wind
Who is Serena Williams?