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Feb 9, 2022 Biographies

Mildred Hemphill Burkhalter was born in Pierce, Oklahoma. At age nine her family moved to Rentiesville, Oklahoma. Mildred is the youngest of six children. Her loving parents were Alton and Pauline (Gr...

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Mary Ruth Morrow Kapsiak

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Feb 5, 2022 Biographies

Mary Ruth Kapsiak began her career as a NYNEX Corporation Customer Service Representative employed in Business Marketing. She served as Chairperson of the Upstate Telephone Commercial Union and served...

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Lillian Davis-Wilson

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Feb 2, 2022 Biographies

The Reverend Lillian Davis-Wilson was ordained in the Diocese of WNY, to the diaconate on August 29, 2015. She is assigned to St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Buffalo, New York. Her ministry is in ber...

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Henry Moxley

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Dec 6, 2021 Biographies

Henry Moxley, escaped from slavery in his home state of Virginia and found his way to Buffalo, New York where he became an influential activist. Moxley's name can be found in the first Buffalo City Di...

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Gloria Killian Roseboro

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Nov 22, 2021 Biographies

Colonel Roseboro is a product of the Buffalo Public Schools and graduated from D'Youville College School of Nursing in 1976. In 1984, she received a Master of Science Degree in Management and Business...

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Sababu C. Norris

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Aug 22, 2021 Biographies

After 31 productive years at Canisius College (since 1989), Sababu Cornell Norris retired in June 2020 as an administrator in the Division of Student Affairs where he served as director of the college...

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Mabel Bell

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Aug 14, 2021 Biographies

Mabel Bell was born in 1942, October 23rd in Zimbabwe. Mabel had four siblings, one sister and three brothers. Her mother was African, and her father was Arabic, so in Zimbabwe society at the time she...

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Anna Porter Burrell

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Jul 30, 2021 Biographies

Dr. Anna Porter Burrell was born in Philadelphia in 1902. She graduated from high school and a two-year Normal School before completing a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the University of Pennsy...

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Ambrose Inman Lane Sr.

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Jun 24, 2021 Biographies

Rev. Ambrose Inman Lane Sr, the son of a coal miner and a schoolteacher, was born and raised in Knoxville, Tenn. Although he had received four college scholarships, Mr. Lane was forced to postpone his...

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Robert Franklin

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Jun 18, 2021 Biographies

Robert Franklin was a free African American of advanced age living in a log cabin with his family on Niagara Street, near present-day Columbus Parkway. At the time, the location was within the boundar...

Theresa Anderson Evans

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Apr 15, 2021 Biographies

Born in New York City, Theresa G. Evans came to Buffalo in 1908 with her parents, Mack Gordon Anderson and Bettie Spencer Anderson, and her two brothers. Her father established the Manhattan Hotel on ...

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Anthony L. Watson Sr.

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Mar 30, 2021 Biographies

Anthony L. (Tony) Watson Sr., rose from the segregated school system of Oklahoma City to compete in the Olympics and later become the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Emblem Health, Inc. Born F...

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