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Jul 15, 2017 Biographies

William A. Battle is a Logistics Manager for International Business Machines (IBM) where he has been employed for over 30 years. He has held numerous management positions in the Eastern United States;...

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James Charles Seals

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Jul 13, 2017 Biographies

James Charles Seals, affectionately known as Dokey, was born on July 16, 1938 in Alexandria, Louisiana. He is the youngest of four children of Rev. Willie B. Seals and Mrs. Nellie Mae Patterson Seals....

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Victoria Maxwell

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Jul 13, 2017 Biographies

Victoria Maxwell was a native of Liberia who traveled the world and had many occupations, from translator to principal to pianist. She settled on Buffalo's east side in the 1960s becoming a popular sp...

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Theresa Victoria Garland

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Jul 13, 2017 Biographies

Theresa Victoria Garland was a retired nurse active in church affairs. She was born in Bridgewater, North Carolina. She came to Buffalo, NY in 1940 and was a 1948 graduate of the Buffalo School of Nur...

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Ruth A. Davis Richardson

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Jul 13, 2017 Biographies

Ruth A. Richardson, who managed a family photography business, died in the Salt Lake City home of one of her sons after a long illness. Born Ruth Davis in Buffalo, she attended School 31 and graduated...

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Juanita Cameron DeBerry

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Jul 13, 2017 Biographies

Born Juanita Cameron in Chipley, Ga., Mrs. DeBerry came to Buffalo with her family as an infant. She was a graduate of Hutchinson-Central High School and Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. She t...

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Ira Lee Tatum

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Jul 13, 2017 Biographies

Ira Lee Tatum was a businesswoman who reached out and used her resources to help others in her community. She was born in Montgomery, Alabama and came to Buffalo with her family at the age of 14. She ...

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Carol Salter Glover

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Jul 13, 2017 Biographies

Carol M. Salter is a native Buffalonian and the third of seven children. Educated in the Buffalo Public School system, Carol is currently attending Erie Community College majoring in Criminal Justice ...

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Evaline Logan

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Jul 13, 2017 Biographies

Evaline Logan was a runaway slave, who found shelter and assistance, before entering Canada and gaining her freedom from Emily Wadsworth. Mrs. Wadsworth was a "terminal" in the Buffalo Underground Rai...

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Constance Helen Abrams Milliner

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Jul 13, 2017 Biographies

Constance Helen Abrams Milliner was born on December 16, 1932 in Buffalo, New York. Her parents were Harold and Anna Elizabeth Abrams. Connie, as she was affectionately known, was a graduate of Fosdic...

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Edward Cook

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Jul 13, 2017 Biographies

Edward Cook was born a free Black on October 11, 1816 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the son of Henry Cook, an African Ibo, held in slavery in Maryland. Henry escaped his master, joined an Indian trib...

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Mary Carter Smith

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Jul 13, 2017 Biographies

Mary Carter Smith was born in Birmingham, Alabama on February 10, 1919 and has resided in Maryland for 60 years. Smith is known nationwide for reviving and promoting storytelling as an art, as a teach...

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