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Feb 11, 2019 Biographies

Alice Hayes came to Niagara Falls in 1935 with her husband, Dr. Charles B. Hayes, who died in 1961. Dr. Hayes was the city's first black physician. The couple had one child, E. Marie Hayes-Davis. A na...

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Sylvia Ann Barlow-Little

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Feb 11, 2019 Biographies

Sylvia Ann Barlow-Little was born in Talbatton, Georgia, the daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. W.H. Smith of Columbus, Georgia. She graduated from Spencer High School in 1947. In 1956, she graduated ...

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Shirley Hamilton

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Feb 11, 2019 Biographies

Shirley J. Hamilton was born and raised in Niagara Falls, NY. She is the first of two children born to the late James and Mary Hamilton. Upon graduation from Niagara Falls High School, she attended th...

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Vera Bray Trimier

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Feb 11, 2019 Biographies

Vera B. Trimier is the daughter of David and Nancy Curry Bray. She was born in Royston, Georgia on May 11, 1905. Vera joined the St. John Baptist Church in Gainsville, Ga. At an early age and served a...

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Thelma Nixon Griffin

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Feb 11, 2019 Biographies

Thelma Griffin was born in Hamilton, Ohio on April 9, 1902 to Annie (Watson) Nixon and Alfred Nixon. She attended the public schools of Hamilton, and graduated from Hamilton High School in June 1920. ...

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Stephanie Dudley-Tillman

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Feb 11, 2019 Biographies

Stephanie Dudley-Tillman is a native of Western New York, residing in Niagara County in the Town of Lockport. She has been with her husband for 25 years, happily married with four wonderful children, ...

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Lydia Ann Taylor Dunjee

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Feb 9, 2019 Biographies

Lydia Ann (Taylor) Dunjee was born March 13, 1846 and would have been 83 years old when she died. She and her family, born freemen, were of the Old Dominion,Ã‚ÂVirginia. She was reared by a white fam...

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Carolyn Betty Woods Daughtry

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Jan 27, 2019 Biographies

Carolyn Betty Woods was born in Lynchburg, Virginia on January 12, 1923. She is the daughter of Reverend Doctor Robert Clisson and Nellie Hunter Woods. She was baptized by her father and was a life-lo...

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Velma Peigne Holt

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Jan 26, 2019 Biographies

It has been a wonder journey in the life of Velma Marie Peigne Stanford Holt. Born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, Velma left there as a young bride and moved to Akron, Ohio. There she and her first husband, N...

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Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm

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Jan 24, 2019 Biographies

"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl." Shirley Chisholm Shirley Chisholm was born Shirley Anita St. Hill on November 30, 1924 in B...

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Arthur Hardwick, Jr.

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Jan 24, 2019 Biographies

Mr. Hardwick was a prominent local business and civic leader for many years in Buffalo and Western New York. He holds the distinction of being the first African American from Erie County to be elected...

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Robert Franklin

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Jan 9, 2019 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...

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