NAACP Fashion Show, Lackawanna, NY

Title

NAACP Fashion Show, Lackawanna, NY

Alternative Title

[NAACP Fashion Show, Novbember 1956]

Creator

Description

NAACP Fashion Show at the Friendship House in Lackawanna in November 1956. The Britt-Dabney Family has lived in the Buffalo area from the eary twentieth century to the present. Elizabeth Britt Dabney was the owner of a hair salon and Oliver J. Dabney was one of the first Black Dentists in Buffalo. Both were involved in the NAACP. Image coutesy of the Ms. Anita Dabney.

Date

1956

Rights

Digital image copyright 2026 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.

Type

Still Image

Citation

Dabney, Anita, “NAACP Fashion Show, Lackawanna, NY,” B&ECPL Digital Collections, accessed June 18, 2026, https://digital.buffalolib.org/document/17812.