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Mrs. Edna Frances Corpening White

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Feb 20, 2012 Biographies

Buffalo Business NY United States

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Dec 4, 2011 Biographies

Black participation in the history of Western New York would not be complete without acknowledging the contribution of the first African American building trades contractor; a man who was to expand th...

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Aug 14, 2011 Biographies

Dorothy White operated businesses on Buffalo's East Side with her husband. She was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma and married Edward White in 1938. They moved to Buffalo in 1940. They established White's ...

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Mrs. Carmen Francine Jones May

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Aug 14, 2011 Biographies

Carmen Francine May Jones was born March 18, 1949 in Olean, New York and moved to Niagara Falls, as a young girl, and attended various schools in Niagara Falls. Carmen owned several businesses through...

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Aug 11, 2011 Biographies

James H. White of Buffalo was a pioneering businessman, who founded a real estate company that put people in homes across the East Side. He also formed his own band at the Colored Musicians Club. A na...

Brooklyn Business NY United States

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Aug 2, 2011 Biographies

Joseph White was the son of Evelyn Griffin and Joseph Sidney White. He was born on December 28, 1933. He successfully completed his secondary education at Birmingham, Alabama's Immaculata High School ...

AL Birmingham Business United States

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Jul 14, 2011 Biographies

Our mother is known as the diminutive dynamo. Many years ago, I remember her speaking of and praying on her vision to become the proprietor of her own shop. It was her dream to create a place where fo...

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