Music
As an American singer and jazz pianist, also acted in films and on television and performed on Broadway.
Nat King Cole
He was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) and broke the baseball color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
Jack Roosevelt Robinson
She is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist.
Oprah Winfrey
Known for challenging racial segregation when she refused to leave the whites-only section at the Roseland Theatre in Nova Scotia in 1946.
Viola Davis
When did Black History Week start?
1926
was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer. Dubbed the "King of Pop"
Michael Jackson
From Chatham, Ontario was a premier pitcher in the American League from 1965-1988.
Ferguson Jenkins
He became the first Black man to win the coveted Best Actor prize for his role in Lilies of the Field.
Sidney Poitier
He was a social activist and Baptist minister who played a key role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968.
Martin Luther King, Jr
Who was called the Father of Black History?
Carter G. Woodson
Who was the only African American member of the famous Rat Pack
Sammy Davis Jr.
I was born Cassius Clay. I won a gold medal for boxing.
Muhammad Ali
Is known as a philanthropist. In 2003, he made headlines when he donated $30 million to the Royal Ontario Museum
Michael Lee-Chin
Called "the mother of the civil rights movement," she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
Rosa Parks
Name the man who was an escaped slave turned activist and author, and a prominent leader in the abolitionist movement to end slavery.
Frederick Douglass
Internationally renowned Jazz Pianist from Montreal
Oscar Peterson
Who won Canada’s first ever gold medal in the men's 100-metre race at the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.
Donovan Bailey
She played the role of Oda Mae Brown in the romantic fantasy thriller Ghost.
Whoopie Goldberg
She is an American astronaut and physician who, on June 4, 1987, became the first African American woman to be admitted into NASA’s astronaut training program.
Mae C. Jemison
In 1976, what President made proclaimed February to be Black History Month?
President Gerald Ford
I am known as the "Queen of Soul".
Aretha Franklin
The first Black NHL player to win the Norris Trophy (Top Defense Player) in 2013.
P.K. Subban
In 1968, “The Tonight Show” host Johnny Carson turned over hosting duties for an entire week to actor and activist
Harry Belafonte
This Inventor was in demand for "the Real McCoy" known for his patents in an automatic lubricating cup for train parts and other machines.
Elijah McCoy
In what year did Upper Canada (now Ontario) passed an Act intended to gradually end the practice of slavery.
1793