ITHACA, N.Y. — At the turn of the 20th century, Sylvester and Lucy Suzey lived in a two-story clapboard house across from the St. James AME Zion Church on Ithaca’s Wheat Street, now Cleveland Avenue. Sylvester worked as a barber and hotel porter, and the veteran of the U.S. Colored Troops led parades through Ithaca’s Southside, […]