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nearly a century (1903–1996), Howard Wilson Coles studied and
recorded our culture, and was an outspoken conscience of the
community. A man who acted not for personal gain, but for causes
he believed were right and just, Coles both chronicled and
shaped us. Yet unlike his hero, Frederick Douglass, his name is
not well known to many today. Coles sprang from the tradition of
Rochester inventors personified by industrialists like George
Eastman, Edward Bausch and Joseph Wilson (a personal friend),
and social reformers Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass.
Born in a time characterized by pervasive prejudice and
discrimination toward African Americans, Coles envisioned a
future with equal opportunities for al