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Jul 15, 2024 Biographies

A native of Alexandria, Louisiana, Dr. Barbara Seals Nevergold moved to Buffalo, New York in 1947 at the age of three. Her parents, Rev. Willie B. and Clara Ellis Seals relocated to the city as pionee...

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Mildred Irene Seals Wiggins

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Dec 3, 2022 Biographies

Mildred Seals Wiggins is a native of Alexandria, Louisiana. She is the oldest daughter of W.B. Seals and Nettie Mae Seals Jones. Mildred moved to Buffalo in 1947 with her father, step-mother, brothers...

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Lydia Tura Wright

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Oct 7, 2020 Biographies

Lydia Tura Wright was born on May 5, 1922, in Shreveport, Louisiana. While still a child, Lydia and her sister, twin brothers, and mother, Parthenia Hickman Wright, moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, to join ...

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Willie Brown Seals

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Apr 19, 2020 Biographies

Willie Brown Seals, who preferred to be known by his initials, W.B., was born on November 22, 1910 in the rural community of Bayou Rapides, near Alexandria, Louisiana. He was the eldest child and only...

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David James Verser

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Feb 16, 2019 Biographies

David James Verser was a native of Gilbert, Louisiana who moved to Buffalo around 1939. He was a longtime employee of National Aniline Company. He was married to Ernestine Williams on June 27, 1953, h...

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Doris Davis Fields

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Feb 12, 2019 Biographies

Doris Davis Fields was born on September 13, 1918 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to Joseph and Maud Davis. She was educated in Baton Rouge, La and attended Louisiana State University. Doris was united in h...

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Gertrude Cheatham Williamson

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Feb 11, 2019 Biographies

Trudy was born August 22, 1932 in New Orleans, LA, the only child of Chester and Julia (Ireland) Cheatham. She attended school in Natchez, MS and relocated to Niagara Falls, NY, with her mother in 194...

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Dec 3, 2018 Biographies

Alice Roosevelt Seals was a native of Bayou Rapides, a rural community near Alexandria, Louisiana. She was born on March 25, 1912 but there was some confusion about her birthdate and she listed 1909 a...

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Dr. Ezekiel Edward Nelson

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Jul 13, 2018 Biographies

In Buffalo, New York, the most dedicated advocate of black self-help and economic cooperation, during the depression and post-depression years, was Dr. Ezekiel Edward Nelson--a local African American ...

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James Charles Seals

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Jul 13, 2017 Biographies

James Charles Seals, affectionately known as Dokey, was born on July 16, 1938 in Alexandria, Louisiana. He is the youngest of four children of Rev. Willie B. Seals and Mrs. Nellie Mae Patterson Seals....

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Parmalier Dejoie Murphy

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Aug 23, 2016 Biographies

Parmalier Dejoie Murphy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her father was Paul H.V. Dejoie, Jr., an insurance executive and founder of the Unity Insurance Company, one of the first African American i...

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Emma Elizabeth Bennett Roy

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Dec 30, 2014 Biographies

Emma Elizabeth Bennett Roy was affectionately known as "Ma Dear" and "Aunt Liz". She was born in Pineville, Louisiana to Rev. Dr. Richard B. Bennett, Sr. and Winnie Lewis Bennett. She was the middle c...

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