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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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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
