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Title
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Association of Women Broadcasters
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Description
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Interior, group view identified as the Association of Women Broadcasters of the National Association of Broadcasters, 10th District. View was taken at a luncheon held at the Muehlebach Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri on September 21, 1949. Women are not identified. Anne Hayes, chairperson of the group, appears to be seated to the right of the large table floral decoration.
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Date
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1949-09-21
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Obituary for Mrs. Lathrop Backstrom
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Description
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Obituary for Mrs. Lathrop Backstrom, former assistant women's page editor for the paper and active in civic groups, dying on October 1, 1969.
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Date
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1969-10-02
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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First Woman Journalism Graduate of M. U. to Retire
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Description
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Biography of Mary Paxton Keeley, the first woman to graduate from the first journalism school in the United States, the University of Missouri, and her careers as a journalist and teacher of creative writing.
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Date
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1952-05-27
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Beyond a Calling
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Description
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Photos and biographical article about Lucile Bluford, 90-year-old African American "editor and part owner of 'The Kansas City Call' newspaper" since 1955. Native of North Carolina raised partly in Kansas City and joining the Call's staff in the early 1930s, becoming "one of the most prestigious journalists in Kansas City history."
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Date
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2001-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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KC Woman Was One of First Female State Legislators
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Description
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Biographical article about Sarah Lucille Turner, or Sarah Turner (1898-1972) of Kansas City, the "first female legislator" in the Missouri state legislature along with Melcene Smith (of Saint Louis) in 1922. Turner was a native of Illinois moving to Kansas City with her family in 1908 and becoming a school reporter at Northeast High School before graduating from the Kansas City School of Law in 1922 and working "in the law offices of Hagerman & Jost" in 1923. She then was elected as a Missouri State Senator in 1924 with the support of Democratic leader Joseph Shannon. Her later career was in journalism in New York, including personnel manager for Newsweek magazine in the 1950s.
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Date
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1987-02-04
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Anne Hayes
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Description
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Portrait of Anne Hayes, newspaper journalist, local radio and television broadcaster and President of the Greater Kansas City Radio Council.
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Date
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1945~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Truth in Black Ink: How Lucile Bluford Heard the Call and Penned Her Way Towards Black Feminist Activism
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Description
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This article compares local African American journalist Lucile Bluford with Ida B. Wells-Barnett, an earlier African American woman writer and activist from Memphis, Tennessee and later Chicago, Illinois. "Taken as a whole, both Bluford and Wells-Barnett are examples of women who carried on a larger cause beyond their own personal lives. Conceptually, both women carried their fights against racial injustice in the spirit of the original vision of the black press." Article explores how the two women used the black press to further their causes.
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Date
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2006
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Anne Hayes
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Description
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View of Anne Hayes, newspaper journalist, local radio and television broadcaster (KCMO) and President of the Radio Council of Greater Kansas City and co-founder of the group. The group's name later became the Radio and Television Council of Greater Kansas City.
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Date
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1955
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Object Type
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Photograph
