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Concert & Event Programs Royal Serenaders
11-17-1963
Program; 1963-11-17
The Royal Serenaders Male Chorus
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REMINISCENSES ON THE PAST OF THE NEGROES
OF BUFFALO
WHO WAS THE FIRST NEGRO WHO SETTLED IN THE BUFFALO AREA ?
The first Negro who settled in the Buffalo area was Joseph Hodge, also called "Black
Joe". He settled there in 1792 and lived in a cabin on the mouth of Little Buffalo Creek.
He was the only negro among a few white settlers. Later this settlement was to become
the Village of Buffalo. "Black Joe" had an Indian wife who bore him children. He lived
with his wife in a cabin which was covered with bark. He also kept a low class grocery
l store. It is believed that he was a run-away slave. He spoke the Indian language and was
often employed as an interpreter. Joseph Hodge was mentioned for the first time as one
k of the 30 captives of the Senecas. After their release, these captives stayed with the Jn.
dians. It is claimed that he lived in a small log shanty situated on the " Flat" near Little
Buffalo Creek, on the east side of the present Main Street. Some historians believe that
his wife was a white woman and that Joseph Hodge left Buffalo in 1807 for Malden,
Canada. However, it seems, that he left Buffalo with the Indians and moved to the Cat.
taragus Creek Reservation, where he died at an advanced age. One of his sons was killed
in the War of 1812.
The first Negro of Niagara Falls was Harry Wood, who was the servant of Judge
Augustus Porter (about 1817). Wood's wife Katie was the cook of the Judge.
DID SLAVERY EXIST IN THE BUFFALO AREA?
In 1802, the surveyor of Buffalo, Joseph Ellicott, received the following letter from
John House of Canandaigua, New York: "I understand that you wish to part with your
black boy. I wish to know your price for him and will take him again."
In a series of articles published in the Buffalo Evening News in 1961, Ellen Taussig
described the burning of Buffalo on December 30, 1813. She mentioned a fiathful servant
Jack Ray, who was a fugitive slave serving the Pratt family. During that eventful night,
He awakened, harnessed up a team and escaped with the Pratt family, who was also
accompanied by a little Negro servant-girl named "Tam". They hadn't gotten very far
when Mrs. Pratt noticed that they had left the silver on the mantel. Against her orders,
Tam slipped off the wagon and ran back to fetch it. She soon returned with the report
that British soldiers and Indians were in the front room, had all the earthenware jars on
the tab le, and were enjoying the sweetmeats and mince pies. A little later Tam got off
the wagon once more and they never saw her again. But they did sight a detachment of
British soldiers marching on Main Street near High, their bayonets shining in the early
morning sun.
DE FACTO SEGREGATION 1848 I
DO YOU. HA VE ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING THE EDUCATION OF
'THE EARLY BUFFALO NEGROES?
Some of this information is contained in the publications of our Society and the
local newspapers. The first mention was made in 1848 and reveals to us that in that year
the city council purchased a school house and a lot on Vine Street for the use of a Colored
School and organized it on the same plan as the other city schools.
TheBuffalo Commel'cial Adve,·tiier of May 13, 1870 printed an article entitled: "Our
colored citizens and the public schools" and stated :
"It seems that the colored people are not satisfied that one school should be set _ap~rt
for their children, but claim the right for them to attend the public school of the d1stnct
in which the parents may reside - as will be seen from the following petition, pre-
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sented at the last meeting of the Council, and referred to the Committee on Schools.
'We, the colored people, labor under great disadvantage in sending our children to the
IVine Street school, out of their district. Some are so small that they cannot go without
their parents take them, so there cannot half of our people be educated in that way, out
of our own districts. Some of us have been paying taxes for more than thirty years. I
took my grandchildren to No. 2, but they would not take them. The Principal sent me
to Superintendent, saying if he had no objections, he had none. I saw t he superintendent
and he said that he had no power, but that the Common Council could remove the dis-
abilities so that the ch ildren could go to school. We thought it best to go before the
Common Council and ask them to remove the disabilities, so that th e children may go to
school in thei r own districts. We pray the Common Council will take it i nto considera-
tion." - Buffalo, May 9, 1870,
Signatures:
Payton Harris
Robert Talbert
John Cary
w·e have heard it hinted tnat the report of the Committee will be adverse to the
prayer of the petitions, and that their action will be based upon Section four of the title
eleven of t he New City Charter which is as follows.
4. The city shair establish, maintain and regulate one or more schools, free to afI
colored children- between the ages aforesaid (5-20), residing in the city.
WHAT WAS THE REACTION OF THE NEGROES OF BUFFALO CONCERNING
THE PROCLAMATION OF EMANCIPATION ?
According to an article published in the Buffalo Morning Expre.rs of January 12,
J 863, there was a meeting of the colored citizens of Buffalo at Lockwood·s Hotel. The
article states:
" An account of the proceedings of the Buffalo Anti-Slavery and Fugitive Aid Society
-an association of over three years standing among our colored citizens - at a meeting
held in commemoration of the Emancipation P roclamation was sent to this office early last
week for publication, but was not brought to our notice until Saturday. We subjoin as
much as our space this morning permits.
" The assembly was called to order by the President Mr. George Weir, Jr., who in a
few brief and pertinent remarks, stated the object for which the company h as assembled.
The throne of Grace was then addressed by the Rev. Mr. Dorrell, after which a blessing
was pronounced by the Rev. Dr. Pennington."
One of the many toasts given to the crowd was as follows:
"The President of the United States, his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, the great, t he
good, the God-like author of the new birth Proclamation of January 1, 1863. May his
name be ever revered by the World of mankind, and may millions yet unborn be taught
to bless h is memory as the g reat Apostle of our Union in proclaiming liberty to the cap-
tive and the openi ng of the prison doors to them that are bound.
PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S WORDS
f om most gratified to learn of ffte opening of the "Century of Negro Progress ••
Ex position. It comes at a time when we ore struggling to eliminate the lost vestiges
of racial discrimination. Thi s important event signifies much more than commem ora-
Hon of the centenniar anniversocy of the emancipation from slavery in our great
Notion. It will ex pose for oil to see the significant contribution of the American
Negro to the cultural, scientific, and political growth of the Nation at home and in
the world over t he post century. It will further interracial understanding and hasten
the comtng time of equcrl opportunity for all citizens of these United States .
Th.e Amecicon N.egco Emancipation Centennial Authority is to be congratulated
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Congratulations on a Century of Negro Progress . . .
Vera Edwards
Courtesy of
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-~WISHES EVERY SUCCESS TO THE
American Negro E.mancipation Authority
in their establishing of a new
Youth and Young Adult Cultural Center
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AT THE LOWEST PRICES ANYWHERE
For Unusual Gifts . . . Visit AUDREY'S GIFT SHOPS
Audrey's Record Stores salutes a Century of Negro Progress. Established in
1957 and was the first Negro Record Store. Within one year Audrey's opened their
second record store and one year later opened their third in Niagara Falls, New
York. The Buffalo Jazz Festival has depended on Audrey's Record Stores for sales of
tickets for concerts and cultural events. We specialize in Jazz, Rhythm and Blues,
Spiritual, and Gospel, at the lowest prices anywhere.
"We point with pride to our record of unexcelled relations in serving the Negro
area.''
These stores are owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. Robe rt E. Wilson.
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BUFFALO, NEW YOKKEMANCIPATION CELEBRATION
Presented by the
CULTURAL CENTER
( No n-Pro fit Orga nization)
CENTER Of THE ARTS
MALCOLM ERNI ________________________________________ Director
EDITH WASH INGTON _______ _______________________ lnstn,ctor
, BILL PARKER _____ _________________ ______________________ Associate
MICHAEL OLUTUNJI __________________________________Advisor
.OLIVER MASON ________________________________ Youth Lea der
-· 1HUBERT GUILDCREST __________________ ____ ______Pro ductions
MR. ERNI
" PORTRAITS OF MY PEOPLE"
A Century of Negro Progress
As I see it, this Exposition commemorating 100 The decision belongs to the past; as now h e is
years of Negro freedom, is not only a chronicle por- wrapped in th e integration pattern, that defines equal
trayal of the achievement of the Negro p eople since protection of the law as a doctrine that includes all
1863; it is a recognition of the fact that the Negro as
persons born in the United States and naturalized
a citizen has earned his rightful place in our Ameri-
under the Laws of th e United States, that this new
can D emocracy, and as the result is entitled to receive
concept of integration is th e foundation support of
every right privilege and protection under the Consti-
equal justice, equal opportunities and equal rights
tution of the United States.
for all of our citizens.
This Centennial Celebration, furthermore, stands So the Centenpial bring s the Negro people to
as a symbol of the Negro's recognition that he has the point of demand for freedom, liberty, equal jus-
come of age; that the dastardly inferiority complex tice under th e law, NOW I The Centennial is a sym-
imposed upon him by the 1896 Plessy versu s Fer- bol of the present demand of th e Negro people for
guson , "Separate but Equal", the Negro has his way, every benefit, every privilege, every right now extend-
has moved forward with his contributions-in spite ed to the white people of the United States. The Cen-
of well calculated and cleverly desig ned obstructions tennial, in asserting these demands, calls upon all
set in motion by vicious men in many circles; in people of good will and of fair decency to join with
science, in medicine, in law, in the count!ess services the Negro p eop le in this recognition, to the end that
the long trek that the next 100 years will find our
rendered to build our western civilization and its beloved country unified in fact, in spirit, in objective,
mighty ramparts, its buildings, its dams, its fortifica- in purpose-unfettered by race or color, walking
tions, its instruments of war and peace. together in the main stream of our civilization.
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Written and Directed by MA LCOLM ERNI
Assistant to Mr. Erni -- EDITH WASHINGTON
Narrations by VERA EDWARDS
Courtesy Pharmaco Products
Fashions .............................................................................................. HELEN W ILLIAMS
Narrations ........... ..................................... .......... SUNNY J IM KELSEY, JOSEPH RICO,
JIMMY LYONS
Dramatics ...................................... ........................... ....................................JIM TAYLOR
Coordinator ............................................................... .................... ............... FRED W ILLIS
Soloists ....................................................................JUNE DUELL, VASHTI TOMPSON
Choral Director .................................................................................... ANDREW BROWN
United Voices of St. John
Male Choral Director ...................................... ................................. ...........ROY MA THIS
Royal Serenaders
Organ ......... ....... .................................................................................. ROSIE LEE SMITH
The ABLOBA DANCE TROUPE .. ..................... ............. .........MAKEDA MYORBA
Orchestration .......................................... .. ................................... .......BENNY JOHNSON
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PORTRAITS OF MY PEOPLE
Act I
THE PAST
Act II
THE PRESENT \\
Act Ill
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In the words of Abraham Lincoln,
the aim of every loyal American should be
" ... to elevate the condition of men;
to lift artificial weights from all shoulders;
to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all;
to afford all an unfettered start and
a fair chance in the race of life."
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