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Brenda Dabney can trace her family's footsteps through more than a century of blacks in New Mexico.
Her great-grandfather came to the state as a Buffalo Soldier in the 1850s, later settling down as a garbage collector, university groundskeeper and tour guide.
Her grandfather worked as a janitor in Albuquerque but also owned a small ranch on the eastern outskirts of the city, she said.