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Apr 10, 2024 Biographies

Emeline was a native of Virginia, who was born circa 1825. Whether she was enslaved or not is unknown and how she and her sister got to Buffalo is also unknown. She, and her sister, Sarah arrived in B...

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Mary Morris Burnett Talbert

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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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Peyton Harris

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Apr 8, 2024 Biographies

One of Buffalo's most historic buildings, the Michigan Street Baptist Church (constructed between 1845-1849), is well-known for its association with the Underground Railroad and Buffalo's civil rights...

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Constance Bowles Eve

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Apr 5, 2024 Biographies

Constance B. Eve, one of ten children, was born on July 14, 1932, in Havoco, W. Virginia to Robert Bowles and Georgia W. Bowles. She married Arthur O. Eve, Deputy Speaker, New York State Assembly in J...

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Mrs. Florence D. Johnson

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Feb 28, 2024 Biographies

Florence Johnson is a graduate of Buffalo State College and holds a B.S. in Exceptional Education and Elementary Education as well as M.S. in Education. She served as project director for Student Supp...

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Clifford Bell

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Feb 28, 2024 Biographies

Clifford Bell was born on November 28, 1929, in Buffalo, New York as one of seven children to the late Emmett and Thelma Bell. Throughout his life, he has been known to the people of his community as ...

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Carolyne Scott Blount

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Jan 25, 2024 Biographies

Personal: Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1943 to parents who were educators. Reared in the rural town of Ruthville in Charles City County, VA. Married to James M. Blount, parents of three children; Jam...

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Velma Jay McGriff Ferguson

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Jan 25, 2024 Biographies

Velma Jay McGriff Ferguson was born in Buffalo, New York on October 6, 1933. She is the eighth child of eleven children born to Ernest and Isabell McGriff. At the age of 9 years old, the president of ...

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Rose H. Sconiers

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Dec 27, 2023 Biographies

Honorable Rose H. Sconiers, New York State Supreme Court Justice, is former judge of the City Court of Buffalo; former Executive Attorney of the Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo, Inc.; former Assistant Cor...

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Lillian Serece Williams

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Dec 4, 2023 Biographies

Lillian S. Williams was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and was raised in Niagara Falls, New York, where her family moved when she was four years old. She is the oldest of nine children of Ada L. Will...

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The Honorable Betty Jean Grant

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Nov 20, 2023 Biographies

Betty Jean Grant is a (former) City of Buffalo Common Council Member, who represented the city's University District. She was first elected in 1998 and was re-elected in 2000, when for the first time ...

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Oliver Mathew Bragg

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Aug 31, 2023 Biographies

Oliver M. Bragg has the distinction of being the second African American Policeman in Buffalo. Bragg was appointed, from the Civil Service list, to the position of patrolman on July 18, 1919. He joine...

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