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Oct 30, 2020 Biographies

Mrs. Carr was born in Ashville, North Carolina on August 17, 1902. She graduated from South Carolina State College. Later she took a correspondence course in Business Leadership from LaSalle Institute...

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Martha Antoinette Thompson Ford

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Oct 4, 2020 Biographies

At the turn of the twentieth century Martha Ford was among the black club women in Buffalo who advocated for the rights of blacks. She was married to Cornelius Ford, a successful businessman who moved...

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Indiana Hunt Martin

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Oct 1, 2020 Biographies

My mother, Indiana Hunt Martin is a living testament to the statement "It takes a village to raise our children." Just recently I was able to visualize the meaning of this statement when she gave me s...

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Susan Evans

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Aug 4, 2020 Biographies

Susan Evans was a college-educated social worker who attended higher education in Chicago and trained at a settlement house there. She was a member of the Chicago organization, the Civic League of Chi...

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Harriet Price Jacobson

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Jul 15, 2020 Biographies

Harriet Price was born in Lexington, Kentucky and was raised in Kinsley, Kansas, where her father was a prosperous businessman. In addition to being a rancher and stockman, he also owned a livery stab...

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Clara Louise Payne

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Jun 19, 2020 Biographies

Clara Louise Payne was a member of an old established Buffalo family. Her father, Thomas W. Payne was a native of Richmond, Virginia and worked as an office clerk according to the 1920 census. Her mot...

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Charles A. Dickson

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May 31, 2020 Biographies

In a 1913 newspaper article Charles A. Dickson described his parents in warm and loving terms. He wrote that his mother, Phoebe Ann Lane Dickson was "a witty and well-educated woman". A native of Alba...

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Georgie Stokes Walker

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Mar 23, 2020 Biographies

Georgie Stokes Walker, the only child of Lucille Lee Stokes and the late James Stokes, was born February 20, 1924 in Calhoun Falls , South Carolina . She was brought to Buffalo , New York at three mon...

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Cravane Middlebrooks Givens

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Mar 7, 2020 Biographies

Cravane Middlebrooks Givens was born on June 16, 1932 in Buffalo, NY. He was the fifth of six children of the late William H. and Estelle Roberts Givens. He was baptized into First Shiloh Baptist Chur...

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Elizabeth Fields Bradley

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Nov 20, 2019 Biographies

Elizabeth Bradley is the daughter of the late Doris A. Davis- Fields and Willie C. Fields of Niagara Falls, New York. She is a graduate of Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Georgia, where she earned a Ba...

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Johnson C. Wells

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Nov 3, 2019 Biographies

Second Lieutenant Johnson C. Wells was a Tuskegee airman whose death cut short a promising life. He is considered a Buffalo war hero and is memorialized by the VFW Post that bears his and another war ...

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Paulette Woods

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Sep 15, 2019 Biographies

Paulette Woods is the Central District Buffalo Board of Education Representative She has been a homeowner and resident of the Ellicott/Central District for over 26 years. Mrs. Woods has 32 years of ex...

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