‘In the six decades since, Booker has emerged as one of Buffalo’s foremost citizens. Though he was born in Arkansas, on July 5, 1939, and grew up in Illinois, he is by now Buffalo to the bone. He’s been an administrator of Erie County’s CETA employment program, director of equity and diversity at Erie Community College, and a leader of the Buffalo Bills Alumni Foundation while it raised more than $2.7 million for a range of local causes.’