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He was the first person of African descent to be elected president of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman
She was a Canadian businesswoman, who challenged racial segregation at a cinema in Nova Scotian. Others have described as Canada's Rosa Parks, and now featured in Canada's $10 bill.
Who is Viola Desmond.
This province has the third-highest Black population in Canada.
What is Alberta.
He was a boxer, and later the executive director of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted, from 1993-2005. Him self was wrongly convicted in the US and a team of relentless Canadian lawyers helped secured his freedom.
Who is Rubin "Hurricane" Carter.
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
He arrived in Canada as a navigator and interpreter in the early 1600s.
Who is Mathieu Da Costa.
Born in Calgary, she became the first Black person to graduate with a law degree in Alberta and the first Black female lawyer in Canada, in 1954.
Who is Violet King Henry.
This community in Central Alberta was established in 1909 by African-American immigrants from Oklahoma and Texas.
What is Breton?
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington
Who said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
Who is Maya Angelou
They fought alongside the British army during the American Revolution and settled in the Maritimes. These loyalists were later sent to this West African country, in the 1800s.
What is Sierra Leone.
In 1995, this government officially recognized Black History Month.
What is the Government of Canada.
He became the first Canadian sailor, the first Nova-Scotian and the first Black to receive the Victoria Cross.
Who is William Hall.
Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Who is Toni Morrison
Which famous athlete said "Hating people because of their colour is wrong. And it doesn't matter which colour does the hating. It's just plain wrong."?
Who is Muhammad Ali
This group of Jamaicans were exiled to Nova Scotia and later transported to Freetown, in the 1800s, creating closer bonds of history between Jamaica and Sierra Leone.
Who are the Maroons.
This novel by Lawrence Hill, tells the story of an abducted 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle—a string of slaves— Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South Carolina.
What is the "Book of Negroes"
She was the first female newspaper publisher of African descent in Canada, and North America as whole. She also founded "The Provincial Freeman"
Who is Mary Ann Shadd Cary.
In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
What is 1619
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
He was the first Black person to be elected into a provincial legislature.
Who is Leonard Braithwaite.
He was the first settler of African descent, arriving in 1882 before Alberta was a province. He helped lay the foundations of the ranching industry in western Canada.
Who is John Ware?
She was a former journalist and became Canada's first African-Canadian Governor General in 2005.
Who is Michaëlle Jean.