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Jul 20, 2011 Biographies

My name is Elizabeth Graham, originally residing in New York City I am currently in my senior year at the University at Buffalo (UB). This last year at UB has been a very rewarding experience due to t...

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Gloria Fuller Fuller-Kimbrough

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Jul 20, 2011 Biographies

Dr. Gloria Fuller-Kimbrough was an educator, community leader, social reformer and a women children's rights advocate. She was born in Troy, New York to Sadie Louise Jolly-Fuller (a school teacher) an...

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John Phillip Elias

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Jul 14, 2011 Biographies

John Phillip Elias was born in Jamestown, New York on January 31, 1924. He was the son of John Q. Elias and Louise M. Mitchell Elias. He attended the Love school and Jamestown High School. He was draf...

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Charles Edward McGriff Sr.

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Jul 14, 2011 Biographies

A native Buffalonian, Charles was the ninth of eleven children. He was a 1955 graduate of Burgard Vocational High School. He served in the Army stateside, then worked in security at the General Motors...

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Raymond Read

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Jul 14, 2011 Biographies

A native of Rochester, New York, Raymond graduated from James Madison High School before entering the Air Force. He served four years in the military. He moved to Buffalo to attend Buffalo State Colle...

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Willie James Dorsey

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Jul 14, 2011 Biographies

Willie James Dorsey was a noted musician and music teacher in Buffalo. He was a native Buffalonian, who was a 1950 graduate of Fosdick-Masten Park High School. He was one of six African American stude...

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Ronald Howard Fleming

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Jul 14, 2011 Biographies

Ronald Howard Fleming was a community activist and founder and publisher of the Buffalo Fine Print News, a weekly newspaper on the Buffalo's East Side. He was born on October 16, 1944 in Lackawanna, N...

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Beverly Joyce Godfrey Webb

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Jul 14, 2011 Biographies

Beverly J. Webb was born in Buffalo, New York on December 30, 1937. She was the daughter of Ruby Godfrey and the late Alfred Godfrey. Her husband was Ronald L. Webb to whom she was married for more th...

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Thelma Keith

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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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Catherine Fisher Collins

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Jul 14, 2011 Biographies

Dr. Catherine Fisher Collins has earned a Doctoral degree from the State University of New York's University at Buffalo, from which she had also received a Master's Degree in Allied Health Education, ...

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Theresa Juanita White

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Jul 12, 2011 Biographies

Theresa J. White was born in Buffalo, New York. Her parents, Miles and Gladys White, moved to Buffalo from Memphis, Tennessee. She had one sister, Muriel White Sobers. Theresa was a graduate of the Bu...

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Daniel Stewart Workman Jr

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Jun 28, 2011 Biographies

Daniel Stewart Workman, Jr. was a native Buffalonian. He was born on June 13, 1944 to Daniel and Elizabeth Workman. He had six siblings, four brothers, Vincent, Ronald, Rudolph and Warren and two sist...

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