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Mar 12, 2014 Biographies

Bishop Charles H. McCoy was a leader in the Church of God in Christ in Western New York. He was pastor of the Pentecostal Temple Church of God in Christ. Bishop McCoy was part of the WNY religious lan...

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Marshall Littlejohn

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Nov 20, 2013 Biographies

Marshall Littlejohn was born on July 9, 1907 in Spartansburg, South Carolina. His parents were Date and Hattie Littlejohn. At the age of twelve, he had a dream that hound dogs were on his trail callin...

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Grace Harden Williams

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Nov 18, 2013 Biographies

Grace Williams was born and raised in Rock Hill South, Carolina to Mary and William Harden. Born on February 26, 1916, she is the youngest of nine siblings. After graduating from high school in South ...

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Jannie McCarley Peterson

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Jun 16, 2013 Biographies

Jannie McCarley Peterson was born in Camden, South Carolina to Rebecca Neal and Reverend Burnie C. McCarley. She was the eldest of two children and has a sister, Rebecca Brown. She lived in Camden unt...

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Lucille Lee Stokes

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Mar 19, 2013 Biographies

Lucille Lee Stokes was the youngest child born to David Lee, a farmer and itinerant Methodist minister and Leah Foote Lee on January 20, 1905 in Calhoun Falls, Abbeville County, South Carolina. She wa...

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Thelma Belcher Barnes

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Mar 19, 2013 Biographies

Thelma Barnes was born on May 11, 1925 in Calhoun Falls, South Carolina. Her parents were Coleman and Georgie Lee Belcher. She attended school in her home town and moved to Buffalo in 1943. As a young...

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Dr. Charles David Bull, II MD

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Mar 3, 2013 Biographies

Dr. Charles D. Bull was a graduate of the 1940 class at Lincoln University. At Lincoln, he was a biology major. He was also a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. He served as the sports editor of th...

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Evelyn DeWalt Kemp

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Dec 29, 2012 Biographies

Evelyn DeWalt Kemp was a native of Newberry, South Carolina. She moved to Buffalo with her family when she was 9 years old and attended Buffalo School 32. She graduated from Hutchinson-Central High Sc...

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Dr. Maggie Saxon Wright PhD

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Feb 17, 2012 Biographies

Maggie S. Wright, PhD, a resident of Hermitage, Tennessee, is a former resident of Williamsville, New York and a native of South Carolina. Dr. Wright received a Bachelor Degree from South Carolina Sta...

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Katherine Alexander Kirkland

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Jan 28, 2012 Biographies

Biography appears in Uncrowned Queens: African American Women Community Builders of WNY, Volume III Katherine Alexander Kirkland was born on March 2, 1919. She was the oldest of seven children (Alfred...

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Willie Davis McCullough

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Nov 28, 2011 Biographies

Willie Lee Davis was born on April 26,1939 in Sumter, South Carolina. She is the only daughter of Willie Russell Davis and Jannie Juanha Coplin-Davis. Willie is the second eldest of five children. In ...

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Ansel J. Cureton, Sr.

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Aug 14, 2011 Biographies

Ansel J. Cureton, Sr was one of the first African American streetcar operators in Buffalo. He was a native of Greenville, South Carolina. He moved to Buffalo in the late 1930s. He worked as a streetca...

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