Underground Railroad & Resistance
This network of Black churches and community leaders within Buffalo provided coordinated shelter and aid for freedom seekers.
What is the Buffalo Anti-Slavery Network?
This pioneering Buffalo radio station, located near the Corridor, became one of the first Black-owned and operated stations in the U.S.
What is WUFO 1080 AM?
In the 1960s, this local civil rights organization was instrumental in organizing protests and community advocacy on Buffalo’s East Side.
What is BUILD (Build Unity, Independence, Liberty, and Dignity)?
The Michigan Street Corridor is governed and promoted by this nonprofit organization working to preserve its cultural and historical sites.
What is the Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor Commission?
This strategic geographic feature of Buffalo made it a crucial last stop on the Underground Railroad.
What is its proximity to the Canadian border (via the Niagara River)?
This unique feature of the Colored Musicians Club allows visitors to mix their own jazz ensemble using historic musician recordings.
What is the interactive jam session exhibit, AKA the Jazz Lab?
This prominent Buffalo African American suffragist and anti-lynching advocate once led the Niagara Movement and co-founded the NAACP.
Who is Mary Talbert
Rev. Nash fought for racial equality in education and supported this historically Black university, where many local students later attended.
What is Howard University?
This minister kept his home as a secret haven for freedom seekers, with a hidden cellar used as a shelter.
Who is Rev. J. Edward Nash Sr.?
This influential union was created in response to the exclusion of Black musicians from white locals and led to the creation of the Colored Musicians Club.
What is Local 533?
In the early 20th century, this Buffalo-based newspaper gave voice to the city’s African American community and frequently covered events along Michigan Street.
What is the Buffalo Criterion?
This Buffalo school, named after a famed abolitionist, served the African American community and often partnered with leaders from the Corridor.
What is the Frederick Douglass School?
This little-known Buffalo route, part of the Underground Railroad network, passed through the Corridor and led freedom seekers to the Niagara River.
What is the Michigan Avenue Freedom Trail?
Buffalo’s Colored Musicians Club is the oldest continuously operating African American musicians’ club in the United States. What year was it formally established?
What is 1935? (as Local 533)
This man, a formerly enslaved African American and mason, helped build the Michigan Street Baptist Church.
Who is Samuel H. Davis?
The Nash House is an example of how African Americans in Buffalo's housing patterns were forced to settle in this kind of urban neighborhood.
What is a racially segregated inner-city neighborhood?
Freedom seekers from the South often passed through Buffalo on their way to this Canadian city.
What is Toronto?
This pioneering Black female jazz vocalist and Buffalo native helped shape the jazz scene in the mid-20th century.
Who is Ann Montgomery?
Rev. J. Edward Nash served as pastor of the Michigan Street Baptist Church for how many years, making him one of the longest-serving ministers in the region?
What is 61 years? (from 1892 to 1953)
This federal designation helped bring national recognition and funding to the Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor.
What is a National Heritage Area designation?