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Oct 17, 2018 Biographies

SAMUEL DUNLAP WAS BORN IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS JULY 8, 1895 AND WAS RAISED IN BENTON HARBOR, MICHIGAN BY HIS MOTHER MELISSA AND STEP FATHER REVEREND MOSES EASLEY. HIS NATURAL FATHERS NAME WAS SAMUEL DUNL...

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Ms. Luniya Bernadette Msuku

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Sep 22, 2013 Biographies

Luniya currently works as an African researcher in Virginia. She obtained her Master of Arts in International Policy Studies with a Specialization in International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution,...

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Ms. Luniya Bernadette Msuku

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Jun 7, 2012 Biographies

Luniya currently works as an African researcher for the Navanti Group in Virginia. She obtained her Master of Arts in International Policy Studies with a Specialization in International Negotiation an...

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Ortiz Montaigne Walton

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Jan 22, 2012 Biographies

Ortiz Montaigne Walton, the first African-American member of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and a prominent figure in African-American studies, was a native of Chicago, Illinois. He studied music ...

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Robert Waite Easley

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Dec 4, 2011 Biographies

Robert Waite Easley was born in Chicago, Ill. June 7, 1908. Robert was one of 6 children born to Rev. Moses Melissa (Busby) Easley. Rev. Easley a Pentecostal minister was a plasterer by trade. The fam...

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Shirley Wright Watts

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Jun 20, 2011 Biographies

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Shirley M. Wright-Watts has been a Buffalonian since her youth. The mother of seven, and grandmother of eleven, Shirley has a history of community activity dating back to th...

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Paula Calvin Prince

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Jun 17, 2011 Biographies

Paula was born Paula Patricia Calvin in Chicago, Illinois on October 21, 1951 to the late Eddie Lee Calvin Sr. and Ruby C. Mims. Paula is the third oldest of nine children. Her mother moved the family...

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Yvonne Minor Ragan

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Jun 17, 2011 Biographies

Dr. Yvonne Minor-Ragan is currently the principal of the newly converted Westminster Community Charter School (WCCS). Dr. Ragan is recognized as an influential leader and citizen of Buffalo. She has s...

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Patricia Lee Franklin

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Patricia Ann Franklin, affectionately referred to as Pat, was born May 4, 1946 to the union of Ivory Lee and Emma Jenkins in Chicago, Illinois. Patricia received her primary education in Chicago, grad...

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Delores E. Coleman

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Delores E. Coleman was born in Chicago, Illinois and moved to Buffalo in 1977 with her husband and childhood sweetheart, Stanley Coleman, also a native of Chicago. A graduate of Parker High School in ...

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