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Apr 9, 2024 Biographies

Mary Morris Burnett was born in 1866 and educated at Oberlin College. Following her graduation in 1886 from Oberlin at the age of 19, Ms. Burnett moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, where she accepted a p...

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Felton L. Davis

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Jul 13, 2023 Biographies

Felton L. Davis is an Eagle Scout, earning the award on October 22, 1956, with Troop 41, Baton Rouge, LA. He attended Bayou Boys State during the summer of 1959 and then served on the Boys State Staff...

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Dan Alexander Montgomery

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Mar 14, 2022 Biographies

A hotel and supper club owner, Dan Montgomery was the son of Jonas and Charity Vincent Montgomery. He was a black businessman, who operated two restaurants beginning in 1907 at 158 Exchange Street and...

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Eva Melinda Bateman Noles

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Feb 1, 2021 Biographies

Mrs. Eva M. Noles is a Registered Nurse, a Nursing Educator, and a former Director of Nursing at Buffalo's world-renowned Roswell Park Cancer Institute. The first black nurse to train in Buffalo, Mrs....

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Laura Griffin Pleasant

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Feb 11, 2019 Biographies

Laura Pleasant was born in Dayton, Ohio to Aaron and Thelma Griffin on November 16, 1937. The family moved to Niagara Falls, New York when Laura was four years old and her older brother, Logan Alfred ...

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Rosetta E. Monique Smith

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Feb 11, 2019 Biographies

Rosetta E. "Monique" Smith was born January 28, 1953 in Cleveland Ohio. She is the eldest of five siblings. In her first decade of life, Rosetta witness in living color strict Jim crow laws, school se...

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Thelma Nixon Griffin

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Feb 11, 2019 Biographies

Thelma Griffin was born in Hamilton, Ohio on April 9, 1902 to Annie (Watson) Nixon and Alfred Nixon. She attended the public schools of Hamilton, and graduated from Hamilton High School in June 1920. ...

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Sarah May Talbert Keelan

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Feb 3, 2018 Biographies

Sarah May was the only child of Mary Burnett and William Herbert Hilton Talbert. She was born in Buffalo in 1892. She attended Buffalo schools and according to an announcement in the June 24, 1911 edi...

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Leona Hubbard Butler

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Nov 4, 2017 Biographies

Leona Hubbard Butler was nominated to become an Uncrowned Queen by Dr. Gwen Jarvis, Uncrowned Queen. On Sunday, April 30, 2017 10:00 AM we will be conferring her for her order of continued business wi...

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Charles Perkins

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Nov 20, 2013 Biographies

Charles Perkins was deputy director of the Erie County Community Action Organization and a longtime neighborhood organizer and activist in Hamlin Park. He was a native of Akron, Ohio, raised in Indian...

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Charles Bateman

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Jun 18, 2013 Biographies

Charles Bateman was a composer, soloist, accompanist and band leader. He also tuned and repaired pianos to earn money, before he attained constant demand status. In his heyday, he could be found on st...

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Garnet Hicks Wallace

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Aug 11, 2012 Biographies

Garnet Wallace came to Buffalo to become the Superintendent of the Buffalo Friendship Home in 1947. A graduate of Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio, she began her career working with youngst...

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