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Title
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Negro Librarian at Lincoln High
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Description
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Vertical file containing a biographical article about Miss Mildred Kimbrough, newly appointed head librarian at the "Lincoln high school branch library," succeeding Miss Priscilla Burd, "white, who for 15 years has headed the Negro library." Kimbrough was a graduate of Lincoln High School in Kansas City before becoming a librarian in Springfield, Missouri and then in Kansas City starting in 1936. Her assistant was Miss Capitola Jones, "in charge of the children's room."
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Date
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1941-01-03
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Kansas City Public Library
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Description
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Interior view, taken in the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library located at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. View includes a librarian, an African American man as well as two African American children, all unidentified. Exact location in library not given, may be the children's or youth area.
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Date
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1955~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City Public Library
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Description
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Interior view, taken in the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library located at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. View includes adults as well as two African American children, all unidentified. Woman on the left, assumed to be a librarian, is holding a 78 rpm record. Exact location in library not given.
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Date
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1955~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Father of Miss Capitola Jones Dies in Topeka
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Description
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Vertical file containing an obituary for John Paul Jones, a Kansas City lawyer dying at the age of 96 on March 7, 1952. Jones was born in a log cabin "of slave parentage" and "was licensed to practiced [law] in the state of Illinois" in 1888. He came to Kansas City as "the first Negro to become licensed to practice [law] in the state of Missouri" and in 1939 became "the first Negro" to be admitted to practice in the Supreme Court. He also published a political magazine called the "Paul Jones Magazine" for several years. One of his surviving daughters, Miss Capitolia Jones, "children's librarian at the Lincoln branch library" of the Kansas City Public Library.
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Date
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1952-03-14
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
