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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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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
