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Apr 11, 2024 Biographies

Sheila L. Brown Sheila L. Brown, Manager and Principal Owner of Visions Multi-Media Group, LLC, is a visionary leader and a history-making business executive. Brown fulfilled her longtime dream of own...

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George K. Arthur

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Apr 11, 2024 Biographies

George K. Arthur was a native of Buffalo. His father, William E. was also a native of the city, while his mother, Janie, moved to Buffalo from Memphis, Tennessee. George was one of three siblings, inc...

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Samuel Davis

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Apr 10, 2024 Biographies

Samuel Davis was born on August 13, 1810, in Temple Mills, Maine. He moved to Buffalo from Windsor, Ontario sometime in the late 1830s and quickly became a respected community leader. A learned man, D...

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William Wells Brown

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Apr 10, 2024 Biographies

Recognized as the first African American novelist, William Wells Brown was born into enslavement in 1814 in Lexington, Kentucky. He was the child of a relative of the white plantation owner and an ens...

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Emeline Coy

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Apr 10, 2024 Biographies

Emeline was a native of Virginia, who was born circa 1825. Whether she was enslaved or not is unknown and how she and her sister got to Buffalo is also unknown. She, and her sister, Sarah arrived in B...

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Mary Morris Burnett Talbert

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Apr 9, 2024 Biographies

Mary Morris Burnett was born in 1866 and educated at Oberlin College. Following her graduation in 1886 from Oberlin at the age of 19, Ms. Burnett moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, where she accepted a p...

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Peyton Harris

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Apr 8, 2024 Biographies

One of Buffalo's most historic buildings, the Michigan Street Baptist Church (constructed between 1845-1849), is well-known for its association with the Underground Railroad and Buffalo's civil rights...

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Constance Bowles Eve

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Apr 5, 2024 Biographies

Constance B. Eve, one of ten children, was born on July 14, 1932, in Havoco, W. Virginia to Robert Bowles and Georgia W. Bowles. She married Arthur O. Eve, Deputy Speaker, New York State Assembly in J...

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Mrs. Florence D. Johnson

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Feb 28, 2024 Biographies

Florence Johnson is a graduate of Buffalo State College and holds a B.S. in Exceptional Education and Elementary Education as well as M.S. in Education. She served as project director for Student Supp...

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Clifford Bell

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Feb 28, 2024 Biographies

Clifford Bell was born on November 28, 1929, in Buffalo, New York as one of seven children to the late Emmett and Thelma Bell. Throughout his life, he has been known to the people of his community as ...

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Carolyne Scott Blount

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Jan 25, 2024 Biographies

Personal: Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1943 to parents who were educators. Reared in the rural town of Ruthville in Charles City County, VA. Married to James M. Blount, parents of three children; Jam...

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Velma Jay McGriff Ferguson

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Jan 25, 2024 Biographies

Velma Jay McGriff Ferguson was born in Buffalo, New York on October 6, 1933. She is the eighth child of eleven children born to Ernest and Isabell McGriff. At the age of 9 years old, the president of ...

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