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Mar 15, 2015 Biographies

Mrs. Lillian J. Meadows, born Lillian Johnson was a significant contributor to the Buffalo community. A native of Mobile, Alabama, Mrs. Meadows came to Buffalo as a child after her father, Sidney O. B...

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James H. Hall Sr.

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Nov 21, 2014 Biographies

James H. Hall Sr., a native of Anniston, Alabama, moved to Buffalo in the early 1960s after he married Cassandra Brown in 1962. She died in 1990. A 1961 graduate of Alabama State University, where he ...

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Huncles "Sonny" Means

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Mar 24, 2014 Biographies

Born in Plateau, Alabama, Sonny moved to Buffalo, New York with his new wife Virgie in the Mid-1950s. A hard-working man, Sonny was employed as a laborer at the General Motors Central Foundry in the T...

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Evergreen Craig Salter

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Mar 19, 2013 Biographies

A native of Aldrich, Alabama, Evergreen Craig attended the Carlton Hill Baptist Church Elementary School and Bibb County Training School. In 1949, she married Willie L. Salter and relocated to Buffalo...

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Robert "Count Rabbit" Robinson

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Mar 10, 2013 Biographies

Robert "Count Rabbit" Robinson died one day after he was honored in a Black History Month tribute by Buffalo's Mayor, Byron Brown. Mayor Brown declared February 18, 2011 "Count Rabbit Day" in Buffalo,...

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Anita Ann Burrell White

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Dec 29, 2012 Biographies

Born Anita Ann Burrell in Birmingham, Alabama, she was valedictorian of the Class of 1957 at DuSable High School in Chicago. She received her bachelorÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s degree in chemistry from Parso...

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Marie E. Mullen

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Sep 17, 2012 Biographies

Marie Mullen is a former millinery and dress designer. She owned the company Just Ree II whose trademark was "Timeless Elegance". She participated in local fund raisers exhibiting her "Exclusive Limit...

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Andrew Boyd

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Feb 15, 2012 Biographies

Andrew Boyd was born in Attalla, Alabama. He came to Buffalo with his family in 1945 and graduated from Bennett High School. He served as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division during the Korea...

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Mr. Roosevelt "Punch" Woods

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Jan 15, 2012 Biographies

Roosevelt Woods was born June 27, 1916. His parents were Charlie and Annie Woods. He was the youngest of 19 children. He met and married his wife Queen Esther Lavender in 1937. They moved in 1940 to L...

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Rosa Holley Gibson

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Aug 24, 2011 Biographies

Rosa Gibson was educated at Carver High School in Detroit, Michigan. She earned an Associate's degree from the School of Nursing at Niagara County Community College and a Bachelor of Science degree in...

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Thomas J. Merriweather

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Aug 19, 2011 Biographies

Reverend Thomas Merriweather was born on January 16, 1905. He came to Buffalo in 1922 from Alabama. He established a church in Lackawanna and joined the First Shiloh Church in 1934 where he served as ...

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John Edward Tobias

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Aug 14, 2011 Biographies

My Story: My story begins in Alabama. Born into a loving family in the city of Birmingham on October 9, 1917, I was raised by maternal Uncle Charlie Banks, his wife Inez and maternal grandmother Carri...

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