All posts tagged Mary Ann Shadd

Adrienne Shadd is living history of Southwestern Ontario and, by extension, Canada. Her great, great grand-aunt, Mary Ann Shadd, was the first female newspaper editor in Canada and the first Black female lawyer in North America, having graduated from Howard University. Adrienne has been a major contributor to Toronto in the field of race relations…

 Mary Ann Shadd (1823-1893) was a nineteenth-century educator, integrationist, suffragist and abolitionist. ary is best known as the first black woman editor of a newspaper in North America. Mary opened the first integrated school in Canada and became the first female black lawyer in the United States. An advocate for the social and political integration of…