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Title
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Lafayette Tillman
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Description
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File containing photos and information on Lafayette Alonzo Tillman, or Lafayette Tillman (1858-1914), the second African American police officer of Kansas City and an early barbershop singer. Native of Indiana coming here in 1880 and opening a restaurant in 1881 at 105 East 12th Street, later working at a barber shop at 11th and Walnut Streets before opening his own at 12th and Grand Avenues. Later performing with the Allen Chapel Choir, serving in the Spanish-American War and "appointed a police officer in Kansas City, Missouri and at the time when there was only one Negro police officer" in about the 1901s.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Lafayette A. Tillman
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Description
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The Ramos Lincoln Collection vertical files have two files for Lafayette Tillman. One contains correspondence from Tillman to his wife, Portia, daughter June, and to his attorney, concerning his pension. There is a card from Nagasaki, Japan, sent in 1901 and letters from Camp Haskell in Georgia, San Francisco, and the Philippines, while in the service. The second file has photographs.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Kansas City Police Department History
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Description
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Folder contains photocopy of diagram and photo of building at 4th and Main Streets. Also contains an uncited obituary and picture of one of the first black police officers, Lafayette A. Tillman.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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1904
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Description
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First in a four-part series of historical fiction set in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1904 and focusing upon a murder investigation carried out by the city's first African-American police officer Lafayette Tillman. James and Thomas Pendergast and other figures from Kansas City history make appearances throughout the story. The final installment includes a section that explains how historical information was used to create the story.
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Date
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2014-11-30
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Highland Cemetery, Gravestone for Lafayette A. Tillman
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Description
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View of grave marker for Lafayette A. Tillman in Highland Cemetery which is located on the west side of Blue Ridge Boulevard between 19th to 21st streets in Independence, Missouri, just east of Kansas City, Missouri. Several noted African Americans are buried here. Lafayette Tillman was a soldier, a scholar, and one of Kansas City’s first African American citizens to be appointed to the police force.
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Date
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2007-04-04
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City: An American Story
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Description
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Biographical sketch of one of Kansas City's first black police officers, Lafayette A. Tillman, a college educated military veteran "in the early years of the 20th century," with photos.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Kansas City's African American ''Immunes'' in the Spanish-American War
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Description
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The ten "Immune" regiments in the Spanish American War were composed of soldiers whom Congress believed would be immune to tropical diseases. African Americans were considered to to be especially adapted to fighting in hot climates and half of the ten Immune regiments were black. One unit of the Seventh Immune regiment came out of Kansas City, recruited at the Colored YMCA. Among their members were Lafayette Tillman and Leon Jordan. Despite the hopes of the volunteers that their service would bring them respect they met with discrimination and prejuedice, both from within the military and at Lexington, Kentucky where they were stationed.
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Date
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2006-04-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
