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Aug 25, 2011 Biographies

Grace Lee White was born on December 16, 1929 in Culpepper, Virginia. She was the fifth of nine children born to Bertha Carter White and Frank White. Grace graduated from East High School in Rochester...

Culpepper United States VA

Laura Westray Holland

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Aug 11, 2011 Biographies

Laura W. Holland was a founder and first president of the Buffalo Chapter of Girl Friends, a nationwide African American women's social organization. She was born Laura Westray in Richmond, Virginia. ...

Richmond United States VA

Thomas B. Stephens

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Aug 11, 2011 Biographies

Mr. Stephens was a longtime community volunteer for the Buffalo Federation of Neighborhood Centers. He was a native of Dansville, Virginia and moved to Buffalo, New York in 1929. He worked at the Chev...

Dansville United States VA

Walter Jackson Givens

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Aug 3, 2011 Biographies

Walter "Jack" Givens was considered one of the area's pioneering physical therapists. He completed his degree in physical education in 1949 at the University at Buffalo. He received his certificate in...

Dansville Healthcare United States VA

Walter B. Holland DDS

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Aug 2, 2011 Biographies

Dr. Holland was born in Moneta, Virginia. He received a bachelor's degree from Virginia Union University in Richmond and a doctor of dental surgery degree from the Meharry Medical College School of De...

Moneta United States VA

Oliver J. Dabney DDS

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Aug 2, 2011 Biographies

A dentist and prominent community leader, Dr. Oliver Dabney was a native of Richmond, Virginia, who moved to Lackawanna, New York when he was a child. He attended the city's public schools. After grad...

Richmond United States VA

George Archie Holt Sr.

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Jul 26, 2011 Biographies

George Archie Holt, the only child of Archie Holt and Charlotte McClain, was born in Newport News, Virginia. A very talented musician, George was first introduced to the trumpet at ten years of age wh...

Newport News United States VA

Daniel Acker Sr

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Jul 21, 2011 Biographies

Daniel R. Acker, Sr. was born on February 28, 1910 in East Radford, Virginia, but raised in Williamson, West Virginia, a coal-mining town. He was the only son of Elizabeth Brown Acker and Paul Acker. ...

East Radford United States VA

Joan Willis Ridley

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Jun 20, 2011 Biographies

Joan Ridley Willis is a retired Social Worker, School Administrator, and Community Activist. She was born in Newport News, Virginia to Hannibal William and Ruth (Spruill) Ridley. She attended the Stoc...

Newport News United States VA

Verdie Gilliam Cabness

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Jun 19, 2011 Biographies

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United States VA Warwick County

Margie Delores Brooks Johnson

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Jun 18, 2011 Biographies

Margie Delores Johnson was born October 20, 1930 in Petersburgh, Virginia to Vernon and Margaret Gilliam Brooks and parents of Peggy Brooks-Bertram. Margie lived most of her life in Baltimore, Marylan...

Petersburgh United States VA

Joanne Veal Gabbin

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Joanne V. Gabbin is the Executive Director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center and Professor of English at James Madison University. She is author of Sterling A. Brown: Building the Black Aesthetic Tr...

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