Founded:	28 May, 1837
Building erected:	1845-1849 See also: Highlights of Buffalo History, 1849
Builder	Samuel H. Davis

Excerpt from Deidre Williams, "NAACP Turns 100 Today," published in The Buffalo News, February 12, 2009, B1 In 1905, 32 prominent African-American men gathered for a reception at the home of William and Mary B. Talbert members of Michigan Street Baptist Church - once a stop on the Underground Railroad. The men - who had financial backing from William Talbert - wanted equal rights for black men.And they wanted it immediately. 'We are men. We want to betreated as men. And we shall win," scholar and activist W. E. B. DuBois was quoted as saying. little did the Talberts know that the reception they hosted in their home would give birth to one of the country's leading civil rights organizations. The following day, the group convened officially for the first time as the Niagara Movement in the Fort Erie (Ont.) Hotel, according to Bishop William Henderson, historian and tour guide for Michigan StreetBaptist Church. Four years later, the group would form the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which celebrates its centennial today.

Other possible underground railroad sites in Western New York: Dr. Harry Fosdick Home, Buffalo First Shiloh Baptist Church, Buffalo Methodist Episcopal Church, Buffalo Morris-Butler House, Buffalo (1837-1927) Durham Memorial AME Zion Church Clinton Hall Eagle House, Williamsville First Presbyterian Church, Lewiston, NY Asa Warren house (c. 1820) Eden, NY Obadiah Baker House, Orchard Park, NY Presbyterian Church, Lockport Union Meeting House, Collins Center, Erie County Moss House (Lockport YWCA) Hull-Peterson House, Lancaster Griffins Mills Presbyterian Church, East Aurora Seldon Ely Farm, Cheektowaga Tryonís Folly, Lewiston, Niagara County Martha Root House, Pekin - from a research paper by Amy Sobierajski, Dept. of Anthropology, Syracuse University