BLACK HISTORY
Across
- 4. What was the first black newspaper?
- 6. He was the first black astronaut to walk in space
- 9. made history as the first black person in the NHL
- 11. Leader of the underground railroad
- 14. A book of poetry by Canadian poet Cicely Belle Bain discussing Black identity and colonization
- 15. was a slave in Nova Scotia who started the first legislation in the British colonies to restrict the slave trade
Down
- 1. He was the first Black person to become a Member of Parliament in 1968
- 2. The author of The Book of Negros.
- 3. The winner of the 2011 Scotiabank Giller prize for the book Halfblood Blues
- 5. Province where Viola Desmond became a civil rights icon.
- 7. The former name of the Toronto Caribbean Carnival
- 8. the 27th Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada.
- 10. Famous Canadian jazz pianist
- 12. Canadian sprinter know as the “fastest man alive”
- 13. A Canadian singer from Toronto who was nominated for best R/B/soul recording in 2012 Juno award.