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Uncrowned Community Builders in Western New York Heritage Magazine

The Uncrowned Queens’ founders have a feature article in the Summer edition of the Western New York Heritage Press, Inc. The article traces the history and development of the Institute from it’s inception to the present. In 2009, the Institute will observe a milestone, its tenth year of operation. We are observing that milestone throughout the year with the theme: “Uncovering the Past to Preserve the Future: A Decade of Progress”. This article is a fitting inaugural event to spotlight that up-coming milestone. We are appreciative to George K. Arthur, president of the Board of Directors of the Western New York Heritage Magazine and to John Conlin, its Executive Editor for the opportunity to write for this prestigious publication. Copies of the magazine are available in Tops and Wegman’s supermarkets and in book stores; Barnes & Nobles, Waldenbooks, Borders and Talking Leaves.

Maya Angelou, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks - all are famous African Americans whose names we recognize. But how many Western New Yorkers have heard of: Raymond Jackson, a founding member of the Colored Musician's Club; Clara Payne,the first black county social worker who welcomed African American visitors to the Pan-American Exposition; John Brent, the black architect who designed Buffalo's YMCA for African Americans, the second one of its kind in the nation; or Amelia Anderson, the first black to graduate with a Ph.D.from Syracuse University and first woman to head the NAACP's Buffalo Branch?

To read the rest of this story by Barbara A. Seals Nevergold, Ph.D and Peggy Brooks-Bertram, Cr. P.H., Ph.D., see page 46 of the Summer 2008 Heritage Magazine.