Excellence in Africentric Education & Research The 2021 African Nova Scotian History Challenges Entries accepted from October 21, 2020 to February 12, 2021 include bursaries totalling $3,000.00, prizes and gifts. The 14th African Nova Scotian History Challenges and Awards are an initiative of the Delmore ‘Buddy’ Daye Learning Institute (DBDLI) and various partners in education from across the province. The goal of the Challenges is to encourage discussion about African Nova Scotian history and culture. The Awards gala for last year’s Challenges was all set for March 27th, 2020. The DBDLI had received more than 4000 entries from 82 different schools. As in previous years, the Lieutenant Governor and other special guests had confirmed their attendance to present the Awards and bursaries to students and teachers for their winning entries. Then, on March 23rd, our lives changed. The Covid-19 pandemic forced the closure of all schools and the Awards gala was cancelled. Though we could not celebrate collectively, we did present the Awards and prizes to students and schools individually. Hopefully, this year we will again be able to celebrate the winning submissions together. The Challenges engage and involve students by inspiring both historical curiosity and artistic creativity. A diverse array of media choices enables students of all grade levels to participate. I invite all students and teachers to participate in the African Nova Scotian History Challenges and I look forward to greeting you at the DBDLI Awards ceremony in the Spring. Let’s celebrate and educate year-round. Sylvia Parris-Drummond, CEO Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute Excellence in Africentric Education & Research

The top School Awards are traditionally presented by the Lieutenant Governor of . This year, their Honours had an opportunity to view the Challenge submissions while on a visit to the DBDLI. Pictured above (left to right) are DBDLI Board member Randy Headley, the Honourable Arthur LeBlanc, community advocate Angela Simmons, Her Honour Rosemary Patricia (Patsy) LeBlanc and Board member Gilbert Daye. The DBDLI Awards for Excellence in African Nova Scotian History are presented to students whose submissions to the Challenges best exemplify the contributions that African Nova Scotians have made to the history, heritage and culture of our province and our country. Bursaries totaling $3000.00, gifts and prizes will be presented to the recipients at an Awards ceremony in the Spring. African Nova Scotian History Challenges 2021 Rules

Open to all students and classes from all schools in Nova Scotia.

Submissions are accepted from October 21, 2020 to February 12, 2021 Entries via mail only or delivered during regular business hours. You are encouraged to send your entries early.

DBDLI Awards for Excellence in African Nova Scotian History are presented to students whose submissions to the Challenges best exemplify the contributions that African Nova Scotians have made to the history, heritage and culture of our province and our country. All Awards include cash bursaries.

Mail or deliver your entries from October 21, 2020 to February 12, 2021 to:

The African Nova Scotian History Challenges Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute 5450 Cornwallis Street Halifax, NS B3K 1A9 Excellence in Africentric Education & Research

Be sure to include your name, address, phone number, the name of your school, your grade, your teacher’s name and your teacher’s contact number.

DBDLI Awards will be presented solely at the discretion of the Judging Committee and the Judging Committee’s decisions will be deemed final. Judges will consider content, grade level, creativity and presentation in evaluating each submission. The Judging Committee may one top prize and one or more runners-up prizes for each Challenge. Awards range from $50.00 to $250.00 each. Prizes will be awarded by category: High School (Grades 10-12), Junior High (Grades 7-9) and Elementary (Grades P-6). Submissions post-marked or delivered after the deadline date will not be considered. Students may submit one entry to each Challenge. Teachers may submit one class entry only. Submissions will not be returned unless accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Only Award winners will be contacted. A complete list of Award winners will be published on our website. Breaking News! Class/Group Project ge You are the reporting team sent to cover breaking news. Produce and submit a video n news report, 3 to 5 minutes long, about one of the following significant historical events. Be sure to cover the basic reporter’s questions of who, what, where, when lle and why. Include “interviews” and “eye-witness” accounts with your report. Why is the event significant? What is the aftermath? ha 1

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• is arrested after refusing to give up her seat in the whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow. She is thrown in jail for the night and fined for defrauding the government of a one-cent amusement tax. Viola Desmond 1914 - 1963 Halifax Successful businesswoman and pioneer in the cosmetics industry in Nova Scotia.

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• City officials threaten to have Eddie Carvery arrested when he sets up his protest camp at Africville. Despite the threat, he begins the longest continuous protest in Canadian history. Eddie Carvery Africville Eddie Carvery began the longest political protest in Canadian history when he set up his protest camp at Africville in 1970. He maintains his protest camp at Africville where he gladly shares the history of his former community with visiting tour groups and schoolchildren.

Lawyer/Social Activist • Burnley “Rocky” Jones was once labelled a “dangerous radical” by the RCMP because he invited members of the Black Panthers to Nova Scotia. In 1993, he becomes the first African Nova Scotian to successfully argue a case before the

Burnley A. ‘Rocky’ Jones, O.N.S. Supreme Court of Canada. 1942 – 2013 Truro First African Nova Scotian to successfully argue a case before the Supreme Court of Canada.

Olympic Boxer/Activist • Kirk Johnson was repeatedly pulled over by the police while driving in Halifax. In 2003, he filed a human rights complaint against the Halifax Regional Police Force for racial profiling. The Human Rights Board of Inquiry awarded him monetary compensation and the HRM Police Force was ordered to Kirk Cyron Johnson North Preston Represented Canada at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. initiate anti-racism and diversity training. Successfully sued the Halifax Regional Police force in a case of racism and racial profiling.

Alternative for individual entries: The Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission “Report on Consumer Racial Profiling in Nova Scotia” concludes that racial profiling is part of the systemic racism that exists in the province. What incidents of discrimination are you aware of in Nova Scotia? Prepare a newspaper report about one incident and what people are doing to take action. African Nova Scotian Communities ge Choose one Black community or settlement in Nova Scotia. Research its history. n Write a short essay or create a visual display that explains its history. lle

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Alternative Community Elders: Senior citizens are often an important source of a community’s history. They can recount events from their own lives and pass along stories and traditions handed down to them from previous generations. Interview an African Nova Scotian elder from your community. Recount the changes to their community they have seen during their lifetime. Notable Nova Scotians ge African Nova Scotians have made important contributions to the political, social n and cultural life of our communities, our province and our country. They have served with distinction in various military conflicts; they have captivated audiences lle with their poetry, acting, singing and writing; and they have been pioneers in every profession. Write a short essay about one of the Notable Nova Scotians. Why do ha 3

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Olympic Athlete African Nova Scotians Journalist/Diplomat Inspiring Cultural and Educational ExcellenceBoxer/Community Activist Social Activist/Author Social Activist/Church Leader The Times of Revised Edition, Vol. I Publisher/Social Activist Pastor/Educator/Social Activist African Nova Scotians Volume Two Educator/Community Activist A Celebration of Our History, Heritage and Culture Jet Fighter Pilot/Instructor www.acadiau.ca Marjorie Turner-Bailey Lockeport Industrial Arts Teacher One of the youngest Canadian runners to ever qualify for Calbert James Best the Olympics. Competed at the Olympic, Commonwealth Social Worker/Community Activist 1926 - 2007 and Pan-Am Games. Has the unique distinction of being Educator/Community Activist Delmore “Buddy” Daye New Glasgow inducted into both the Nova Scotia Sports Hall of Fame Notable Nova Scotians 1928 - 1995 and the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame. Researcher/Boxing & Events Promoter Althea Pearleen Oliver New Glasgow Former Assistant Deputy Minister of Manpower and 1917 - 2008 Immigration. Member, British Commonwealth Secretariat. * Canada’s first Black Sergeant-At-Arms. Community Activist Cook’s Cove, Guysborough Canadian Lightweight Junior Champion. Senator/Activist/Author Reverend Richard Preston Inducted into Nova Scotia Sports Hall of Fame. O.C., O.N.S. Unknown - 1861 Social Activist and Author. First woman Moderator of the Carrie M. Best, African United Baptist Association. Inaugural recipient of 1903 - 2001 Halifax the YWCA Community Leader Award. Educator/Mayor/Artist C.M. New Glasgow Founder of the First African Baptist Church, the African The Clarion. World Hall of Fame Boxer Rev. William Pearly Oliver, Social Activist and Publisher of Abolitionist Society and the African Baptist Association. 1912 - 1989 Invested as an Officer in the of Canada in 1979. World Champion Boxer Wolfville First posthumous recipient of the Order of Nova Scotia Pastor, Educator and Social Activist. Invested as a Member in the in 1984. Teacher/Classical Singer Veteran/Community Activist Dr. Geraldine Browning War Hero East Preston/Gibson Woods Life-long community activist, teacher and nurse. Founding Wally Peters Member and past-President of the Black Cultural Society. Noel H. Johnston Instrumental in re-opening Gibson Woods United Baptist 1937 - 2013 1925 - 1995 Church. Recipient of numerous awards and honours Litchfield Halifax Elizabeth Cromwell including a Doctor of Humanities from . Canada’s first Black jet fighter pilot and air force flying Teacher at Beechville and North Preston. The first instructor. Helped in the development of and flew with the African Nova Scotian to graduate as an Industrial Arts Birchtown legendary flying team, the ‘Snowbirds’. Teacher. Created the ‘shop-mobile’, a bus fitted with Casework supervisor with the Children’s Aid Society industrial equipment which he drove to schools where (retired). Served on the Board of Directors of the Black Beverly Cox Gloria Borden United Front and Black Cultural Society of Nova Scotia. Community Activist he taught Industrial Arts. Truro New Glasgow Deborah Dixon-Jones C.M. A founding member and current President of the Black Community activist, educator and Site Manager of the Hematology Researcher (retired). Boxing and events Loyalist Heritage Society. Black Loyalist Heritage Centre. A leader in the movement promoter. Founder of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir. 1949-1989 Calvin Woodrow Ruck, Community Activist to preserve and showcase the history of the Black Instrumental in organizing the Halifax Amateur Boxing 1925 - 2004 Club which trained several medal-winning boxers for the Africville Loyalists at Birchtown. One of the three founding members of the Africville , C.M. Sydney Community Activist 1976 Montreal Olympics. Inducted into the Pictou County Genealogy Society. She is remembered fondly by the other Daurene Lewis Sports Hall of Fame in 2010. two co-founders of the Society, Linda Mantley and Brenda 1944 - 2013 Social activist and lifelong member of the NSAACP. Community Activist Appointed to the Senate in 1998. Author of two books Steed Ross, as a driving force in the creation of the Sam Langford Annapolis Royal about the No. 2 Construction Battalion. Invested in the Church Activist/Social Worker Africville Genealogy Society. Order of Canada in 1994. 1886 - 1956 First elected African Nova Scotian Mayor Weymouth Falls and first black woman Mayor in Canada. Church Activist/Teacher George Dixon Direct descendant of Black Loyalist, Rose Fortune. 1870 - 1909 The only boxer inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame Athlete/Commissioned Officer Portia White not to have won an official title. Langford aroused so much Africville 1911 - 1968 fear in opponents that many boxers refused to fight him. Politian/Singer/Composer O.C. Halifax First Black World Champion in any weight class and the first Canadian-born Boxing Champion. Doctor , D.S.M. Isaac C. Phills, Internationally renowned Contralto. Jeremiah ‘Jerry’ Jones 1896 - 1985 The Portia White Prize for Artistic Achievement 1869-1950 Sydney in the Arts is awarded annually in her honour. Businessman/Community Activist Truro First African Nova Scotian invested in the Order of Canada. Invested as an Officer in the Order of Canada in 1967. Lieutenant Governor A Canadian hero at Vimy Ridge. Was posthumously awarded the Canadian Forces Medallion for Distinguished Service in 2011. Pastor/Social Activist Businesswoman War Hero Brenda Steed Ross Linda Mantley Africville One of the three founding members of the Africville Africville Irvine Carvery Genealogy Society. The work of the Society led to the One of the three founding members of the Africville Eddie Carvery creation of the Africville Heritage Trust. Genealogy Society and current Secretary/Treasurer of the Africville Society. Active community volunteer lovingly known as President of the Africville Genealogy Society and a Africville Nan by many children in her community. Director of the Africville Heritage Trust. Active community Eddie Carvery began the longest political protest in volunteer. Recipient of numerous honours and awards Canadian history when he set up his protest camp at Muriel States Boxing Champion including the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal. Africville in 1970. He maintains his protest camp at 1888-1984 Africville where he gladly shares the history of his former Avonport/Dartmouth Margaret Upshaw community with visiting tour groups and schoolchildren. O.C. Scientist/Community Activist Community worker and activist. Principle organizer of the African United Baptist Association (AUBA) 1871-1922 Ted Upshaw William (Bill) White, III, Theologian/Scholar/Educator Ladies Auxiliary, founded in 1919. Lockhartville/Windsor Plains , M.D. M.Sc. 1915-1981 School teacher. Founder of the African United Baptist Windsor Plains James A. Phills Truro Nurse/Community Activist Association (AUBA) Ladies Auxiliary. First African Nova Scotian Commissioned Officer and first 1925-2010 Inspector in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). The first African Canadian to run for federal office in O.B.E. Sydney Named to Acadia University’s Sports Hall of Fame in 2012. Canada. Appointed an Officerin 1970. of the Order of Canada Farmer/Philanthropist Beresford Augustus Husbands, The first African Nova Scotian medical doctor. Fellow 1883 - 1969 Farmer/County Councillor The Honourable of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons and BA O.N.S. Halifax the American College of Physicians and Surgeons. Historian/Genealogist Reverend William Andrew White, Mayann E. Francis, Founder of the Halifax Colored Citizens Improvement Storyteller/Writer 1874 - 1936 Sydney League, Member of the Order of the British Empire. Truro First African Nova Scotian to serve as Lieutenant Viola Desmond Governor of Nova Scotia. Sailor/Civil War Hero 1914 - 1963 The first African Nova Scotian to be granted an Honourary V.C. Doctorate from Acadia University. The only commissioned William Hall, Halifax African Nova Scotian officer in WWI. Actor/Playwright 1827 - 1904 Successful businesswoman and pioneer Horton Bluff in the cosmetics industry in Nova Scotia. Poet/Educator/Playwright First black person, first African-Canadian and the first Judge Nova Scotian to be awarded the . Lawyer/Educator Lawyer/Social Activist Clyde Gray William (Bill) Paris Jr. Windsor Plains 1941-2012 Reigning Welterweight Canadian Champion from the New Glasgow 1960s to the 1980s. He was the Canadian Welterweight Instrumental in the development and construction of the Rev Dr. Peter J. Paris Champion, the Commonwealth Welterweight Champion Africentric Heritage Park, situated on Vale Road, New New Glasgow Clotilda Adessa Yakimchuk, and the #10-ranked Welterweight on the planet. Glasgow. The Park is designated a Pictou County Heritage Professor Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary C.M. Site and is dedicated to the history of black people in and a Visiting Professor at Boston University School of Sydney Theology. Named Alumnus of the Year, University of Founding President of the Black Community Development Pictou County. Chicago Divinity School, 1995 and Distinguished Alumnus Organization and the first Black president of the Nelson Whynder RCMP Officer/Author of the Year, Acadia University, Wolfville, 2012. Registered Nurses Association of Nova Scotia. Recipient 1864 – 1939 Allan W. Evans of numerous honours and distinctions including the Harry North Preston Teacher/Community Activist Jerome Award. Invested to the Order of Canada in 2003. Donated the land to build a new school in North Preston. 1890 – 1960 David W. States The school is named in his honour, Nelson Whynder East Preston Elementary School. Farmer and longest serving County Councillor from Windsor Plains Wanda Robson Teacher/ Social Activist Preston. Served as County Councillor from 1931 until his Historian, Parks Canada (retired). Independent historian Ben Jackson North Sydney specializing in African Nova Scotian history and Judge/Community Advocate death in 1960. 1833 - 1915 Retired lab technician, accomplished storyteller, genealogy. Research Associate, Gorsebrook Research West Brooklyn, Kings County writer and frequent guest speaker at schools Councillor/Community Activist Institute, Saint Mary’s University. throughout the province. O.C.,O.N.S. , C.M., O.N.S. Participated in the naval assault on Mobile Bay. Walter Borden One of at least 75 African Nova Scotian sailors known to Olympic Boxer/Activist George Elliott Clarke, New Glasgow Windsor Plains have served for the North during the American Civil War. Judge University professor. Winner of the Governor-General’s Invested as a Member in the Order of Canada in 2005 Politician and winner of the Portia White Prize in 2006. Corrine Sparks Award for Poetry, the Portia White Prize for Artistic , BA, LLB Halifax Achievement, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award and James Robinson Johnston numerous other awards. Canada’s hardest working poet. Lawyer/Social Activist/Mentor 1876 – 1915 One of the first African Canadians appointed to the , O.N.S. judiciary in Canada and the first African Nova Scotian Burnley A. ‘Rocky’ Jones Preston appointed to the bench. Scholar/Pastor 1942 – 2013 First African Nova Scotian lawyer and social advocate for Truro the provision of accessible higher education. Educator/Film-maker/Writer First African Nova Scotian to successfully argue a case before the Supreme Court of Canada. Pastor/Builder Teacher/Community Activist Craig Smith Community Activist/Educator Halifax Noted author and community volunteer. Appointed a Josephine (Simmonds) Johnson Member of the of Police Forces in 2015 by Wilhelmina Alice Williams His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, North Preston Governor General of Canada, in recognition of Teacher,(retired), Dartmouth Vocational School. One of 1914 – 1977 outstanding service and leadership. the founding members of the North Preston Recreation Centreville Teacher and fierce advocate for women’s rights and social Castor Henry Williams, Association. Initiated the opening of the children’s B.A., LL.B. Arnold Johnson daycare and medical centre in Preston. justice. Alice Housing, an organization that provides Dartmouth housing to women and children leaving domestic abuse, First Black judge of the Provincial Court of Nova Scotia. 1925 – 2008 is named in her honour. Past chair of the Black Learners Advisory Committee. North Preston Policeman Activist with the Black United Front (BUF). Manager of the Halifax County Councillor, 1965-1977. World War II veteran. Halifax School Board member. Instrumental in establishing Kirk Cyron Johnson Seaview Credit Union. Honourable Valerie Miller Teacher/Lawyer/Activist the Preston Area Housing Fund and the District 16 area fire , Q.C. George H. Diggs North Preston , Q.C. stations at Lake Echo and North Preston. Represented Canada at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. Whitney Pier 1874-1930 Priest/Community Advocate Successfully sued the Halifax Regional Police force in a Called to the Bar of Nova Scotia in 1986. Practiced with George Webber Davis Preston , BA, MA 1925 - 2004 Alderman/Community Activist case of racism and racial profiling. federal Department of Justice in the areas of fiscal law and tax litigation. Appointed Judge of the Tax Court of Rev. Edwin Howard Borden Halifax Longest serving Halifax County Councillor of the 1869 - 1953 pre-World War II era, serving from 1908 to 1917 and Union Leader/Community Activist Canada on April 2, 2007. First African Nova Scotian lawyer to practice law post- from 1920 to 1930. Truro World War I. Graduate of Dalhousie Law School, 1952. First Nova Scotian-born Black lawyer appointed Lawyer/Law School Faculty Member First African Nova Scotian to graduate from a university in Queen’s Counsel. Nova Scotia. Borden graduated from Acadia with his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1892 and his Master of Arts Lawyer Reverend Wellington Ney States Sylvia Hamilton degree in 1896. Pastor/Scholar O.N.S. 1877 - 1927 Beechville Edith Hope Cromwell, Wolfville 1916 - 2009 Award winning film-maker, author and educator. Olympic Athlete/Coach James A. R. Kinney Inglewood Missionary for the AUBA and gifted carpenter. Reverend States built or restored Baptist Churches throughout Nova Scotia. Politician/Senator 1897 - 1940 Life-long community activist and one of the earliest Yarmouth African Nova Scotian graduates of the Nova Scotia Teachers College. Politician First black graduate of the Maritime Business College and first Superintendent of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children. Community Leader Politician Carl “Campy” Crawford Scholar/Educator 1940 - 2003 Hobartson A. J. “Gus” Wedderburn Whitney Pier First Black police officer in Atlantic Canada. The Carl 1929 – 2007 Crawford Award was established in his honour by the Cape Halifax Thomas (Tom) Miller Breton Regional Police force and is presented annually to Teacher, Principal and Lawyer. One of the founding Archpriest George A. Francis a recipient who exemplifies leadership and commitment to members of the Black Educators Association (BEA) and the 1917 – 1988 justice, fairness and equality in their community. Black Cultural Society. Board member of the Nova Scotia 1908 – 1982 Whitney Pier Association for the Advancement of Colored People Whitney Pier First Black municipal alderman in Atlantic Canada. (NSAACP) and Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission. Selflessly served the congregation of St. Philip’s African Elected to Sydney City Council from 1955 to 1972. The Winston Ruck Orthodox Church and the community of Whitney Pier for Thomas Miller Human Rights Award, established by the 1923 - 1992 Educator/Community Activist forty-three years. Cape Breton Regional Municipality, honours recipients Whitney Pier who work for the advancement, promotion and The first and only Black to be elected President, United Michelle Y. Williams Kenneth David Crawford, Q.C. Musician/Mentor protection of human rights. Steel Workers of America, local 1064. Served on the Rev. Arthur William Jordan Boards of the Black United Front (BUF) and the Black Halifax Whitney Pier 1858-1892 Director and Senior Instructor, Faculty of Law, Indigenous First indigenous Black resident of Whitney Pier to obtain Poet/Teacher/Community Advocate Cultural Centre. Blacks & Mi’kmaq Initiative, Schulich School of Law, Tracadie/Truro a Bachelor of Laws from Dalhousie University. Called to Historian/Community Leader Dalhousie University. the Bar of Nova Scotia in 1976. Long and esteemed legal Deborah Miller Brown Pastor of Cornwallis Street Baptist Church from career is evidenced by his appointment as Queen’s Halifax 1884 to 1891 and one of the earliest African Counsel in and for the Province of Nova Scotia. Nova Scotian scholars. Teacher/Community Activist First African Nova Scotian to compete at the , Q.C. Olympics, 1968, Mexico City. Former track and field Community Activist/Local Historian Don Oliver coach at Saint Mary’s University. , C.M., O.N.S. Wolfville Wayne Adams Politician/Community Activist , C.M. Halifax First African Nova Scotian appointed to the Senate. Legend Joyce L. Ross East Preston First elected African Nova Scotian Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) and Cabinet Minister. Educator/Social Worker Gordon Earle Community health care educator and founder of the O.C. – Officer of the Order of Canada East Preston Day Care Centre. Lay minister. Invested in the Halifax Order of Canada in 2001. Pastor/Educator/Social Activist C.M. – Member of the Order of Canada Leslie H. Oliver First elected African Nova Scotian Wolfville Member of Parliament (MP). Politician/Businesswoman O.N.S. – Order of Nova Scotia Professor Emeritus, Jodrey School of Computer Sciences, Acadia. Dentist O.B.E. – Order of the British Empire Politician/Educator V.C. – Victoria Cross Dr. Marie Nita Waldron Hamilton, D.H.L. Olympic Official/Educator D.S.M. – Distinguished Service Medallion 1920 - 1993 Beechville Q.C. – Queen’s Council A respected educator who taught at many schools in Charles R. ‘Bucky’ Adams Halifax County including North Preston, Hammonds Plains, Beechville, and Cherry Brook. An active church and 1937 - 2012 Maxine Tynes community volunteer and founder of the preschool Halifax Performer and composer. Blues and Jazz legend. Peter Evander McKerrow program at Veith House. 1949 - 2011 Inspiration and mentor to a generation of Dartmouth 1841 – 1906 Nova Scotian musicians. Community advocate, award-winning poet and author, Halifax Hattie Eugena (Daye) Ashe English teacher. First African Canadian woman to sit on Secretary of the African United Baptist Association for the Board of Governors at Dalhousie University. thirty years. Historian and author of 1917 - 2007 Teacher/School Principal Blacks in Nova Scotia (1783 – 1895) A Brief History of Sunnyville, Guysborough . A staunch advocate Mother or foster mother to 32 children. Teacher and Jack Desmond 5539 Cornwallis Street Olympic Boxer/Community Volunteer for the importance of education. principal for 30 years. Councillor for the Black United Front. Lincolnville Henderson Paris Judge/Community Volunteer Decorated community and Church activist. Community historian and champion of the on-going Halifax, NS, B3K 1B3 protest to remove a provincial dump site that was New Glasgow C.M., O.N.S. Teacher/Community Advocate placed near the community of Lincolnville. Councillor and former Deputy-Mayor of New Glasgow. , C.M. Wanda Thomas Bernard, Toll Free: 1-855-350-3200 Served on the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission. East Preston Guidance Counselor/Community Leader Founder of the Run Against Racism Rev. Donald Edward Fairfax [email protected] marathon. 1920-2010 Professor and Director of Dalhousie School of Social Work Cherry Brook (retired). Specializing in addressing issues of violence and Pastor/Teacher/Community Activist anti-racism. Invested in the Order of Canada in 2005. Yvonne Atwell Pastor, school principal and active community Legend Ronald James Lewis Dartmouth volunteer. Two-time moderator of AUBA. Invested in the Order of Canada in 1990. 1932 - 2012 Community Volunteer and Businesswoman. C.M. – Member of the Order of Canada Annapolis Royal First African Nova Scotian woman elected as Percy Paris Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA). First African Nova Scotian Graduate of Dalhousie Q.C. – Queen’s Council C.M. Windsor Dental School. Direct descendant of Black Loyalist, Rose Fortune. Bradford J. Barton, First African Nova Scotian Member of the Legislative Dartmouth Assembly (MLA) to be re-elected to consecutive terms and the first to hold multi-Cabinet posts in government. Officiated at the Olympic Games in Montreal and Los Angeles. Respected teacher and school administrator. 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Mobray Fitzgerald Jemmott 1875 -1941 Halifax Taught at Lucasville, Hammonds Plains and Preston before becoming Principal at Africville School. When Judge Jean Whalen he retired in 1933, his son Gordon replaced him as Bryan Richard Gibson Dartmouth Called to the bench of the Provincial and Family Court in Chester Borden Principal at the School. Gibson Woods Member of the 1976 Canadian Olympic Boxing team. 2009. Founding member of the Black Lawyers Association. Whitney Pier Student support worker. Executive Director of the Whitney Alma Johnston-Tynes Rev. Donald D. Skeir Community volunteer and youth mentor. Vice-Chair of the Race Relations Committee of the Barristers Association. Volunteers with the African United Pier Boys and Girls Clubs. Recipient of numerous awards Cherry Brook 1926 – 1999 including the Jonathan Skeetes Memorial Community Teacher and guidance counselor. Past Moderator of the Baptist Association and the Community YMCA. Halifax Award, the Tom Millar Human Rights Award and the Carl African United Baptist Association. Co-founder of the Charter member of the Nova Scotia Association for the 5539 Cornwallis Street, “Campy” Crawford Award. Black Professional Women's Group. The first African- Advancement of Colored People (NSAACP). Served on the Nova Scotian to serve on the Nova Scotia Advisory Human Rights Commission, the Black Learners Advisory Halifax, NS, B3K 1B3 Council on the Status of Women. Committee and the Black Educators Association (BEA). Pastor at East Preston, Cherry Brook and St. Thomas Toll Free: 1-855-350-3200 United Baptist Churches. Teacher at the New Road School. [email protected]

Alternative Nominate a Notable Nova Scotian: African Nova Scotians continue to make important contributions to the political, social and cultural life of our communities, our province and our country. Nominate an African Nova Scotian, past or present, that you think warrants the designation “Notable Nova Scotian”. Why are his or her achievements important? Top 10 African Nova Scotian Sports Heros ge African Nova Scotians have a long history of excellence in sports. They have been n ambassadors for their communities, and have represented our province and our country with honour. Some have made sports history. Who would be on your lle list of all-time African Nova Scotian sports heroes and why? Send us your Top 10 list. Include a brief summary for each person and explain the significance ha 4

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