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Jun 23, 2018 Biographies

Kimberly Backey is the Director of Community Collaboration for Millennium Collaborative Care (MCC), a Performing Provider System (PPS) affiliated with the Erie County Medical Center (ECMC). She has ov...

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Gerald Seals

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May 1, 2018 Biographies

Gerald Seals was born in Buffalo, New York, one of nine children of Reverend W.B. and Clara Seals. He attended local schools, beginning with public school # 37, now Futures Academy, from Kindergarten ...

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Frank B. Mesiah

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May 1, 2018 Biographies

Frank B. Mesiah is the President of the Buffalo Branch NAACP. He also serves as First-Vice-President of the New York State Conference of NAACP Branches, of which Hazel N. Dukes is President. Mesiah re...

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Kenneth Seals MD

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Apr 27, 2018 Biographies

Kenneth Seals, a native Buffalonian, was born on February 20, 1956. He was the eighth child of Reverend W.B. and Clara Ellis Seals. Kenneth completed his early education in the Buffalo Public School S...

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Moses S. Day

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Apr 3, 2018 Biographies

Moses S. Day was born in Buffalo, New York in December 1844. His father and mother, Jonathan and Louise Diske Day were born in Maryland and Pennsylvania respectively. Moses married Mary Smith in 1869 ...

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Andrew Brown

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Mar 4, 2018 Biographies

A native Buffalonian, Brown was the son of Elijah and Sarah Watts Brown. He began his musical career at the age of 7 at his church, St. John Baptist Church. Andrew Brown was a tenor soloist, who becam...

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Raymond Ellis Jackson

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Mar 2, 2018 Biographies

Raymond Ellis Jackson was born in Buffalo, New York on August 3, 1900. He was the son of Samuel and Harriet Anderson Jackson. Mrs. Jackson remarried to Milton Hardon. He and his older sister, Frances ...

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Clarence Grinage

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Feb 24, 2018 Biographies

Clarence Grinage was acknowledged as one of the pillars of Buffalo's "Negro political machine." Grinage was active as a political and civil rights activist, working as early as 1925 to improve conditi...

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Dorothy Butler McGuire

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Feb 24, 2018 Biographies

A native of Buffalo, New York, Dorothy Butler McGuire was the daughter of Gaske and Hattie Mae Butler. She was born circa 1902. She was a graduate of Buffalo Public Schools, Fosdick Masten High School...

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Roy U. Dixon

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Feb 10, 2018 Biographies

Roy U. Dixon was born April 27, 1918 in Buffalo, New York. His parents were Edward and Christina Dixon and Roy had three siblings, Ira, Genevieve and Dorothy. Roy was baptized as an infant in St. Phil...

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Ira Dixon

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Feb 10, 2018 Biographies

Mr. Dixon was a prominent photographer and for many years, was one of the Challenger newspaper staff photographers. Mr. Dixon was affectionately known as "Soap" to his close friends who had known him ...

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Claude D. Clapp

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Feb 10, 2018 Biographies

Claude D. Clapp, the son of Marguerite Mason Clapp Shannon and Claude D. Clapp, was born in Buffalo, New York. He attended Buffalo Public Schools and, for one year, Central High School in Louisville, ...

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