Prominent Blacks in Alberta history - athlete, singer, poet and more

Edmonton

Johnny Bright professional football player Edmonton Eskimo (today's Elks)

school principal

in the U.S. before his emigration to Canada he was brutally hit in racist attack

wikipedia "Johnny Bright Incident"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Bright_incident

his life outlined here:

https://jasperplacehistory.org/jasper-place-and-the-black-community-then-and-now/

Big Miller jazz singer

Clarence Horatius "Big" Miller (December 18, 1922 – June 9, 1992)

his statue is at end-of-steel park

wikipedia "Clarence Horatius Miller" (which is inappropriate because as an adult he only went by the name Big Miller and recorded under the name.)

Calgary

Bertrand Bickersteth poet western Canadian black historian

lives in Calgary

see https://readalberta.ca/articles/a-history-of-black-albertas-writing/#:~:text=Bertrand%20Bickersteth%20was%20born%20in,also%20writes%20poems%20and%20plays.

===================================================