Uncrowned Community Builders

Madeline Scott is a native of Olean, New York, who moved to Buffalo in 1958. She is the daughter of Mrs. Lois Easley, another Uncrowned Queen.

Mrs. Scott is a graduate of Empire State College and has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Community and Human Services from that institution. She was selected in 1997 as one of Empire State College's Distinguished Alumni and is listed in Who's Who in American Universities and Colleges.

In 1990, she retired from Roswell Park Cancer Institute after a career that spanned thirty-two years.

She has been an active member of the Buffalo Community since her move here over forty years ago. She is a Golden Heritage Member of the NAACP and is active in the Buffalo Chapter as the Secretary and Membership Chair. As an Executive Board member since 1967, she has served on a number of local, regional, and statewide committees. She served four years as Membership Chair of the New York Branches and as second Vice President of the New York State Conference of Branches. Among her duties as Vice President was visiting and working with seven inmate NAACP Branches located in correctional facilities throughout the state. She has been active in the NAACP ACT-SO Program since 1978, serving as Secretary/Treasurer and recruiter of judges.

She also has been an active member of the Afro-American Historical Association of the Niagara Frontier since 1977. She has served as the President; Co-Editor of the newsletter, Historically Speaking; and is the founder and chair of the Association's Annual Family History Dinner.

Mrs. Scott is the recipient of numerous local and statewide civic, community, and organization awards, such as Buffalo Branch NAACP Medgar Evers Civil Rights Award, Black Achievers, New Hope Baptist Church Martin Luther King Award, and others. She is a member of St. Luke AME Zion Church, and is Chair of the Church Endowment Fund, and member of the Church Van Committee.

She is an avid genealogist and has researched different segments of her family back to slavery, as well as free members dating back to 1777. She is a member of the International Society of Sons and Daughters of Slave Ancestry. She conducts family history workshops for groups and individuals and at Oral History Conferences.

Mrs. Scott has authored two articles, "Proceedings of, and address delivered at the Colored Voters League Annual Meeting, Olean, New York, August 13-15, 1895" in the July 2000 edition of Afro-Americans in New York Life and History; and "Family History" in the 1977 issue of the same journal. In 1998, Mrs. Scott, and other family members, participated in the unveiling ceremonies of a monument in Washington, D.C., that honored 240,000 blacks who fought in the Civil War. Three of her ancestors, who served in the United States Colored Troops from New York, Ohio, and Michigan, are listed on the wall.

Mrs. Scott is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Gamma Phi Omega Chapter and the Erie County Chapter of The Links, Incorporated.