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Mar 26, 2020 Biographies

Born Pauline Garnett in Richmond, Virginia, she moved to Buffalo with her parents, Rev. E. J. Garnett and Alpha Elizabeth Shelton Garnett as a youngster. She attended Buffalo Public Schools. Ms. Garne...

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Georgie Stokes Walker

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Mar 23, 2020 Biographies

Georgie Stokes Walker, the only child of Lucille Lee Stokes and the late James Stokes, was born February 20, 1924 in Calhoun Falls , South Carolina . She was brought to Buffalo , New York at three mon...

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James H. Lyons

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Mar 22, 2020 Biographies

James H. Lyons was a lifelong Buffalo resident and a leader in black community affairs. He was Buffalo's first black disc jockey. He was widely known in the late 1950s and 60s for conducting his own s...

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Elmira Brockenborough

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Mar 19, 2020 Biographies

Elmira Brockenborough was two years old when she died from scarlet fever on September 24, 1874. She was the first African American recorded to have been buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery. Elmira was the ...

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Cravane Middlebrooks Givens

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Mar 7, 2020 Biographies

Cravane Middlebrooks Givens was born on June 16, 1932 in Buffalo, NY. He was the fifth of six children of the late William H. and Estelle Roberts Givens. He was baptized into First Shiloh Baptist Chur...

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Jimmy Madison Parker

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Mar 7, 2020 Biographies

Reprinted with permission of the author: Georgia Burnette (2003) James Madison Parker is a tall, handsome African American gentleman born in Buffalo, in 1925, just prior to the Great Depression. His f...

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Amelia Grace Anderson

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Mar 7, 2020 Biographies

Amelia Grace Anderson was a member of a prominent African American family that settled in Buffalo as early as 1832. Her grandfather, Benjamin C. Taylor was the first African American doctor in Buffalo...

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Marilyn Foote Kragbe

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Mar 2, 2020 Biographies

Marilyn Ann Foote-KragbÃ© is the daughter of Lonnie Charles and Mary Ellen Foote. She is the fourth of eight children born and raised in Buffalo, NY. She attended all Buffalo Public Schools: School 53...

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Irving Dean Norwood

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Nov 27, 2019 Biographies

Irving Dean Norwood was born in Cresent, Logan County, Oklahoma on March 30, 1935, the son of Benjamin Kidd Norwood and Lovenia Fields Norwood. His father was a sharecropper and his mother a homemaker...

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Bertha Hill Bradley

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Nov 20, 2019 Biographies

Ms. Bertha M. Hill Bradley has dedicated her entire life to health and health related issues in the Black community in Buffalo, New York. She was born in Buffalo on July 20, 1932. Although she describ...

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Elizabeth Fields Bradley

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Nov 20, 2019 Biographies

Elizabeth Bradley is the daughter of the late Doris A. Davis- Fields and Willie C. Fields of Niagara Falls, New York. She is a graduate of Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Georgia, where she earned a Ba...

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William E. West

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Nov 18, 2019 Biographies

William E. West was born on November 2, 1922 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His parents were Samuel A. and Loretta Jennings. The same year that he was born, he was adopted by his mother's sister, Mary J...

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