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PREVIOUS WILLIAM WELLS BROWN AWARDEES

William Wells Brown was an Afro-American abolitionist, a novelist and an historian.  He was a resident of Buffalo during the 1840s.  The Association gives an annual William Wells Brown Award to persons who have made notable contributions to the preservation and/or popularization of regional Afro-American history.  The awards are presented at the annual “Family History Dinner.”  Past winners of the William Wells Brown Award are listed below.

 

 

1977

1993

Mrs. Joyce Allen

William Robinson

Mr. Frank Meriweather

Castellani Art Museum

Mr. Arthur O. Eve

Bertha Bowler

 

1978

1994

Mr. Raymond Jackson

Underground Railroad Com­mittee of the Niagara Frontier

Rev. James K. Baldwin

Bethel A.M.E. History Com­mittee

1995

 

Carl Mostiller

1979

Mrs. Doris Byrd Watts

1996

Mrs. Sharon Jordan Holley

Dr. Edward S. Jenkins

Mr. Kenneth Holley

Buffalo Quarters Historical Society

Mrs. Alma McCurry Brooks

Ms. B. Gwendolyn Greene

Mr. Freddie Patrick

1997

 

Ms. Marva Daniel

1980

Judson Price, Jr.

The Buffalo Challenger

Mrs. Mary Crosby Chappelle

1998

Mr. Daniel Sparks

Robert Davis, Jr.

Richard McRae

1981

1490 Black History Committee

Mr. Alvin J. Anderson

 

Museum of African and African

1999

American Antiquities

Sonia L. Walker

Dr. Lillian Williams

Douglas Ruffin, Jr.

 

Blacks in the Military Committee

1982

The Buffalo Equity Foundation

2000

The Lit-Mus Club

Dr. Warren Barbour

Mr. Melvin Watkins

Rev. Richard G. Stewart

 

Michigan St. Preservation Corp.

1983

Ora A. Curry

Mr. Cliff Bell

 

Mrs. Eva Doyle

2001

Ms. Cynthia Jefferson

Peggy Brooks Bertram, Ph..D.

 

Freddie Mae Fordham

1984

Barbara Nevergold, Ph..D.

Mrs. Karima Amin

Mr. Stanton Biddle

2002

Mr. Laverne Clay

Pat Kavanaugh

 

Sherri L. Wallace, Ph.D.

1985

Juneteenth Festival, Inc.

Mr. Carl Allen

Florence Hargrave-Curtis

AKA-Gamma Phi Omega

Bro. Simba Mlee

2003

 

Clifford Bell

1986

Adonis Dawkins

Dr. Robert Grantham

Pearl Moore

Harriet Tubman 300s

Federal Magistrate Hugh B. Scott

Mrs. Eva Noles

Association for the Study of African Classical Civilization

 

1987

 2004

First Shiloh Bapt. Church

  Black Pioneers of Niagara Falls NY

Mr. William Miles

 Daisy Anderson

Dr. Monroe Fordham

 Rich Newberg

 

 Mylous Hairston

1988

Rev. Walter Kern

 2005

Mr. Clayton Silver

African & African American History and Diversity Committee of McKinley High School.

Mrs. Madeline O.  Scott

Dr. Felix Armfield

One Alkebu Lon Family Study Group

Georgia Burnette

 

LaDonna Clements

Karen Carter Davis

1989

Pamela Fordham

Mr. James Bell

Teresa J. White

Mr. Musa Hakim

2006

1990

Zola Crowell

Arthur Anderson, esq.

Wanda Davis, Ph.D

George K. Arthur

Shelia Martin, Ph.D

 Geraldine Barkley

Trinity Baptist Church Historic Museum Committee

Josephine Holmes

Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples

Leeland Jones, Jr.

African American Heritage Study Committee of Lincoln Memorial United Methodist Church

Frances Murphy

Sheila Nickson 2007

Sharon Amos, PhD

1991

Fern Beavers

E. Carmita Akiwumi

Deborah Johnson

 Kimberly Randolph

Sandra Williams Bush

Claude D. Clapp

Robert Coles

Dr. Henry Taylor

Jean Richardson, PhD
Placid Parker
2008
1992 Dr. Murial Howard

B.U.I.L.D. Academy

Dr. E.O. Smith, Jr.
Dr. Lydia T. Wright

Dr. Frank Evans

Atty. John V. Elmore

Colored Musicians Club of Buffalo, Inc.