Resistance
This Underground Railroad leader helped enslaved people escape to freedom in Canada.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The forced migration of Africans across the Atlantic is known as this trade.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
This act abolished slavery in most of the British Empire in 1834.
What is the Slavery Abolition Act?
"I know why the caged bird sings."
Who is Maya Angelou?
This year marked the end of apartheid in South Africa with the election of Nelson Mandela.
This 1791 uprising in the French colony of Saint-Domingue led to the creation of Haiti.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This secret network helped enslaved people escape from the U.S. to Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Viola Desmond challenged segregation by refusing to leave this space.
What is a movie theatre?
“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.”
Who is Rosa Parks?
In 1960, this massacre of peaceful protestors in South Africa became a global turning point in the fight against apartheid.
What is the Sharpeville Massacre?
This Nova Scotia community was destroyed in the 1960s after residents resisted forced relocation.
What is Africville?
Many Black Loyalists settled in this Canadian province after the American Revolution.
What is Nova Scotia?
Canada officially ended legal segregation in schools during this century.
What is the 20th century?
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
Who is Frederick Douglass?
First recognized in the United States in 1976, this annual observance was officially recognized in Canada in 1995.
What is Black History Month?
This Pan-African leader organized resistance against European colonial rule in Ghana and later become Ghana's first president.
Who is Kwame Nkrumah?
This Caribbean country saw large waves of migration to Canada in the 1960s and 70s.
What is Jamaica?
This U.S. Supreme Court case ended legal racial segregation in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
Who is Malcolm X?
This African nation became the first Black republic after a successful slave revolt in 1804.
What is Haiti?
This 1831 rebellion, led by an enslaved preacher in Jamaica, accelerated the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. (Rebellion name or the leader is acceptable)
What is the Baptist War? / Who is Samuel Sharpe?
This term refers to the global spread of African-descended peoples due to slavery and migration.
What is the African Diaspora?
This 1960s immigration policy change helped increase Black immigration to Canada.
What is the points-based immigration system?
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
Who is James Baldwin?
In 1896, this battle saw Ethiopian forces defeat Italy, helping Ethiopia remain one of the only independent African nations during the Scramble for Africa.
What is the Battle of Adwa?