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Aug 11, 2017 Biographies

As a proponent of racial uplift, Andrew J. Smitherman, editor and publisher of the Tulsa Star (1913-1921) newspaper often published biographic stories on Tulsa's Black citizens. The following is an ex...

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Lloyd James Hargrave

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Aug 7, 2017 Biographies

Lloyd James Hargrave was born on August 31, 1939 in Buffalo, New York. He was tenth in the birth order of Annie and Ashley Hargrave's eleven children. He was educated in the Buffalo Public School Syst...

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Robert P. Talbert, Jr.

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Aug 7, 2017 Biographies

Robert P. Talbert, Jr. was the son of Robert Talbert, gold rush pioneer and head of the influential Talbert Family of Buffalo, New York. This family was one of the early Black settlers of Buffalo. Rob...

Harriet Ross Tubman

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Aug 7, 2017 Biographies

Harriet Ross Tubman (1822-1913) was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Tubman gained international acclaim as an Underground Railroad operator, abolitionist, Civil War spy and nurse, ...

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Thomas W. Payne

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Aug 5, 2017 Biographies

Thomas W. Payne was the patriarch of a family that produced a number of members who are Uncrowned Queens and Kings, having been extremely contributory to the development of Buffalo's Black community. ...

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Madeline Payne Glasby Middleton

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Aug 5, 2017 Biographies

Madeline Payne Glasby Middleton was a member of an old established Buffalo family. She was born circa April 1887. Her father, Thomas W. Payne was a native of Richmond, Virginia and worked as an office...

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William Qualls

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Aug 4, 2017 Biographies

Buffalo's 1850 City Directory listed William Qualls's occupation as barber. Qualls was a member of the Michigan Street Baptist Church. He was married to Adelaide Harris, daughter of Peyton Harris and ...

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Gregory K. Brown

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Aug 3, 2017 Biographies

Gregory K. Brown, a community leader and activist, was born on December 2, 1948. He was the son of Cecil and Sylvia Consuela Brown. He was a well-known peace activist and environmentalist. A native of...

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Alfreda Lee

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Aug 3, 2017 Biographies

Mrs. Lee was active politically in Buffalo following World War II. She started her political career as an election inspector in the 5th District of the 5th Ward. She organized and was president of the...

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Andrew Jackson Smitherman

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Aug 3, 2017 Biographies

Andrew Jackson Smitherman, publisher of the Tulsa Star at the time of the Tulsa "Race Riot" of 1921, epitomized Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s definition of a principled man. King wrote, "The ultimate m...

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William Louis Marrow

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Jul 26, 2017 Biographies

William Louis Marrow was born May 17, 1932 in Virginia to the late Erma White and the late James Carter Marrow, Jr. Erma White moved Louis and his two siblings James and Doretha Marrow to Lackawanna, ...

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Ernest "Ernie" Warlick

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Jul 15, 2017 Biographies

A native of Washington, D.C., Ernest "Ernie" Warlick grew up in Hickory, N.C. Warlick completed his formative education in the public schools, graduating from Ridgeview High School in Hickory before c...

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