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Title: Joanne Collins: Sunrise, 24th Floor, City Hall
Description: Biographical article about Joanne Collins, a Republican black woman on the City Council, and her husband Bob, with photos and description of her career, including appointment to the council in 1974 and activities in civil rights and revitalization of local jazz history.
Date: 1981
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Black Church: Building God's New People
Description: Photo and description of Reverend Nelson Thompson, or Fuzzy Thompson, "minister of King Memorial United Methodist Church and Executive Director of Martin Luther King Urban Center, Inc." in Kansas City. Founder of the community center about 1972 for children and juveniles.
Date: 1982-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Wheat to Congress
Description: Photo and biographical article about Alan Wheat, "the first Black ever to represent a mostly White district (Missouri's 5th District) in the House of Representatives." Born in San Antonio in 1951 and graduating from Howard University before succeeding Richard Bolling as national representative in Kansas City.
Date: 1982-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A. V. Stevenson Heads Penn Valley Community College: College Has Largest Black Enrollment in Kansas City
Description: Photos and biographical article about Andrew Victor Stevenson, or Andrew Stevenson, "eighth president of Penn Valley Community College," a black native Kansas Citian, and graduate of Lincoln High School.
Date: 1982-12
Object Type: Magazine Article