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Title
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Kansas City Police Department
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Description
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File contains one newspaper from the 1950s and several from the 1960s about various issues relating to the local police and civil rights. These range from police brutality to civil disobedience, racial views, and use of police dogs. There are several photographs included among the article photocopies. The newspapers include the Kansas City Call, The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Kansan, and The Kansas City Times.
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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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Coalition of Concerned Citizens
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Description
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File contains one article, without illustrations, about the Coalition of Concerned Citizens, from The Kansas City Star, titled "Citizen Group Vote to Monitor Police," by Charles Hammer. The 1972 article relates various activities and goals of the coalition, including its intention to serve as a "community police commission." It met at the Coaches Council, 1824 the Paseo.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Forte Sworn in As KC Police Chief
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Description
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Darryl Forte was sworn in as Kansas City's first black police chief at the Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center.
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Date
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2011-10-14
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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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New Police Chief Forte Outlines a Quick Start
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Description
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Darryl Forte (49) has been named the Kansas City Police Department's 43rd police chief. He is the first African American to hold the position. Forte is a veteran police officer of 26 years and has served as deputy chief since 2006.
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Date
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2011-10-08
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
