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Nov 17, 2020 Biographies

Barbara LaFrance Cooke Williams was born on June 23, 1940 in Anniston, Alabama. The daughter of Grady and Anna Mae (Green) Cooke. Her bright and bubbly personality caused her to be known as "Cookie; S...

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Minnie Gillette

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Nov 15, 2020 Biographies

Minnie Gillette was the first African American woman elected to the Erie County Legislature (1977) and had the backing of the Democratic, Republican, and Conservative parties. Shortly after her electi...

Barbara Merriweather Sims

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Nov 15, 2020 Biographies

Barbara Merriweather Sims has enjoyed a career both as a school teacher and as an attorney. Just before attending the State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Law, she passed the citywide te...

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Muriel A. Moore Howard

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Nov 11, 2020 Biographies

Muriel A. Howard, Ph.D., is the first female president of Buffalo State College and the seventh president in the school's history. Dr. Howard led a campus of more than 11,000 students, approximately 1...

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Leslie Clapp Ezie MD

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Nov 11, 2020 Biographies

Dr. Leslie E. Clapp, a Board Certified physician and clinical associate professor of pediatrics at the University at Buffalo, is a graduate of Buffalo Public Schools, Oberlin College, and the Universi...

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Joyce Wilson Nixon

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Nov 10, 2020 Biographies

Joyce Nixon was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and adopted by James and Edna Wilson. Her Mother ( Edna ), a former nurse is deceased and her father , just turned eight-one, retired from US Steel aft...

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Florence Hargrave Curtis

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Nov 10, 2020 Biographies

Florence Hargrave Curtis, a native of Buffalo, is the daughter of the late Ashley S. and Annie Whitehead Hargrave. She began her education in the Buffalo Public Schools. She has an Associate's degree ...

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Annie Hargrave Pinn

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Nov 10, 2020 Biographies

Rev. Annie C. Hargrave Pinn was born on March 6, 1931 in Lackawanna, New York. She was the sixth child and first daughter of Ashley S., Sr. and Annie Whitehead Hargrave. Annie attended Roosevelt Schoo...

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Willie Lee Thomas Carr

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Oct 30, 2020 Biographies

Mrs. Carr was born in Ashville, North Carolina on August 17, 1902. She graduated from South Carolina State College. Later she took a correspondence course in Business Leadership from LaSalle Institute...

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Fatima Morrell

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Oct 25, 2020 Biographies

Dr. Fatima Morrell earned a Bachelor's degree in Spanish, Cum Laude, and a Master's degree in Foreign and Second Language Education from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She also received ...

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Lydia Tura Wright

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Oct 7, 2020 Biographies

Lydia Tura Wright was born on May 5, 1922, in Shreveport, Louisiana. While still a child, Lydia and her sister, twin brothers, and mother, Parthenia Hickman Wright, moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, to join ...

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George Edward Blackman MD

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Oct 6, 2020 Biographies

Dr. George E. Blackman was a member of the Buffalo Board of Education and a prominent physician, who was the first black ever elected to the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Blackman was a veteran sc...

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