Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale was a young lady who was born in the city of Florence. she was born on May 12,1820 and died on August 13,1910. Florence loved math and science so one day she became a nurse. she would take note of all the people who were alive and how big the city was. when she went to a hospital near the war she soon realized that the soldiers were dying because of a disease in the hospital from the nurses not washing their hands in between surgeries. Florence Nightingale had made sure that every nurse had washed their hands and that with all of them washing their hands almost all of the soldiers went home safely to there homes.

Marie-Joseph Angelique

Marie-Joseph Angélique was an enslaved Black woman, she was owned by Thérèse  de Couagn de Francheville in Montréal. In 1734 she was accused of fire leveled in Montréal’s merchants' quarter. It was alleged that Angelique did it while trying to escape her enslavement. Then she was tortured and hanged. 

Portia White

Portia White became very famous because she was the first black canadian concert singer to win approval across North America. She had a talent for singing that was great. She was born on June 24 1911 in truro  and died on February 13, 1968. She died from cancer at age 56.Her father was the son of a former slave in Virginia.He moved to Canada independently. 1903 he was the first black graduate from Acadia University in Nova Scotia. She later became the minister of Cornwallis Street Baptist Church in Halifax serving for more than 17 years.She was also a chaplain in World War I.

Little Rock Nine

Little rock nine is known to be one of the most important moments in African American Civil Rights Movement and is about a group of nine African American students (Minnijean Brown, Terrance Roberts, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls)who enrolled into a formerly all white school of around 1800 students in Little rock Arkansas, 1957. These nine students received so much hate and threats like mobbing, hazing and burning to the point they needed personal guards to escort them to their classes separately. It really shows how brave these nine teens really were. Little Rock Nine was the beginning mark for justice of the ending of segregation in schooling and education.

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Afua Cooper (Ava Pamela), is an educator, historian, performance artist and poet. She was born on November 8th, 1957 in the Whithorn district of Westmoreland, Jamaica, she is well known for her poetry.

Afua Cooper wrote two historical books for children, both of which are based on historical figures, they are called My name is Henry Bibb; a story about slavery and freedom, the next book is My Name is Phillis Wheatley; a story of slavery and freedom. The books were both published in 2009 by Kids Can Press.

She married Alpha Diallo in 1991 and had two daughters, the oldest one is 27 and the youngest one is 24.

Grant Fuhr

Grant Fuhr, one the best goalies in the world and he's canadian he was born in  Spruce Grove, 28 Sept 1962. Grant Fuhr, an Edmonton Oiler goaltender who played alongside Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, Glenn Anderson, with Fuhr on the team they won five Stanley cups! Grant Fuhr was traded, like many of his 1980s teammates (including Gretzky, Messier and Anderson). Fuhr was sent to the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Violet king

Violet Pauline King Henry was the first black woman lawyer in Canada. Violet King was born in Calgary, Alberta on 18 October 1929. She was also the first black person to graduate law in Alberta and the first black person to be admitted to the Alberta Bar. She was also the first woman named to a senior management position with the American national YMCA. From a young age, King was president of the Girls Association in her senior year at Crescent Heights High School. It was also in high school that King developed a passion for the law, writing in her grade 12 yearbook that she wanted to become a criminal lawyer. She practiced criminal law for several years in Calgary before moving to Ottawa to work in the federal department of Citizenship and Immigration. Throughout her career she gave speeches discussing racism and her hopes for gender and race equity. King moved in 1969 with her husband, Godfrey C. Henry,and their young daughter, Jo-Anne Henry,went to Chicago to become Director of Planning and subsequently Director of Manpower. As testament to King’s accomplishments, she was inducted in 1998 into the National YMCA Hall of Fame.