BLACK HISTORY

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