Uncrowned Community Builders

Introduction of History Section of Uncrowned Community Builders

The Uncrowned Queens Institute for Research and Education on Women acknowledges the lives of African-American men and women whose contributions and accomplishments, mostly undocumented, were instrumental in building a vital community. Our history section focuses on providing researched articles that unearth and delineate untold or forgotten stories contributing to regional African American history. In certain instances this research also sets the record straight, such as in the instance of authenticating the events and decisions that led to setting the meeting of the Niagara Movement in Fort Erie, Canada.

Letters

• "The Phyllis [sic] Wheatley Club of Buffalo: Lifting as We Climb, By Many Means Necessary"
• Dubois' Impression of the Mighty Niagara

Niagara Movement

• A letter by W.E.B. DuBois to his daughter
• Niagara Movement - Mystery Solved!
• Uncrowned Queens Niagara Movement Centennial
• Studio Arena Kickoff - January 1, 2005
• 2005 Culture Keeper Awards - January 1, 2005
• Crowns Performance Honors UQs - January 6, 2005
• UQ Receives NCCJ Education Award - January 25, 2005
• After 50 Magazine - February, 2005
• UQ Night at Geva Theatre, Rochester, NY - February 25, 2005
• Uncrowned Queens in Their Hats
• 100th Birthday of Mary Chappelle - March 12, 2005
• Uncrowned Queens Digital Oral History Project
• Tribute to Mary B. Talbert

Pan American Exhibition of 1901

• African American Response to McKinley Assassination
• Africans, Darkies and Negroes: Black Faces at the Pan American Exposition of 1901, Buffalo, New York
• Images from the African Village, Pan American Exposition 1901
• Presentation to commemorate the protest rally of the Phyllis Wheatley Club November 11, 1900, by Barbara A. Seals Nevergold, Ph.D.
• Ross, James A.
• The Midway
• The Old Plantation
• The Negro Exhibit
• The Negro Exhibit at the Pan Am

Other Topics

• Poetry by and for Uncrowned Queens
• https://www.uncrownedcommunitybuilders.com/person/Drusillal Dunjee Houston
• "Uncrowned Queens, Dedicated to the Heroic, Toiling Black Woman"
• "Uncrowned Queens, Dedicated to the Heroic, Toiling Black Woman"

The "Esquimaux Village" at the Pan American Exposition

• Introduction to the Esquimaux Village
• Sandy's Story
• The Midway

The Phyllis Wheatley Club of Buffalo, New York

• Lifting as We Climb: Origins of the Phyllis Wheatley Club

Uncrowned Queens Oral History Project

The purpose of this project is to capture the oral histories of African American women, in their 70's and 80's, preserving the collection and making the interviews accessible from a dynamic web exhibition - the first online, audio-visual, digital techno-pedia.

The project began with the interview of Uncrowned Queens Gwendolyn Greene followed by Eva Noles. The project created a multi-media online exhibit accessible as links from both the University Archives the Uncrowned Queens Digital History Project at:

http://catalog.lib.buffalo.edu/vufind/Record/001770172 website and the Uncrowned Community Builders web page. The website's components will include edited versions of the interviews, interactive study questions for educators and students, and a dynamic virtual guest book feature where visitors to the exhibit can add a response to the exhibit.