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Wheatley School (Ramos Collection)
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Description
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File contains program from Dedication and Open House of Phillis Wheatley School, May 26, 1955.
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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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Black Studies Research Center
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Description
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File contains a general statement and goals and objectives for a Kansas City Public Library sponsored Black Studies Research Center. The core of this center would be the library's Ramos Collection.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Lincoln Branch Library
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Description
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File contains items related to the Lincoln Branch of the Kansas City Public Library, including a history of the branch, and newspaper coverage of the collection's move to the Missouri Valley Room at the Central Library (then located at 311 E. 12th Street), to be renamed the Ramos Collection, after Dr. John F. Ramos. Includes information about Mrs. Mildred Robinson, the first African American librarian in the Kansas City School District, and Priscilla Burd, who was the librarian at Lincoln School from 1926 to 1941.
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Date
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1930~/1979~
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Lafayette A. Tillman Standing Portrait with Others
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Description
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Outdoor portrait of Lafayette A. Tillman wearing his army uniform and carring a rifle. A boy identified as Frank Jones Jr. is standing next to Tillman. Amy Tillman, his wife, is seated next to Jones. A tent is visible in the background.
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Date
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1898
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Lafayette A. Tillman Portrait
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Description
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Standing portrait of Lafayette A. Tillman wearing a police uniform and holding a baton, or night stick.
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Date
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1902
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Men and Horse-Drawn Cart
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Description
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Postcard view of five men seated atop and standing near a horse-drawn cart loaded with tools. A sign for Iner Seal is painted on a brick wall in the background.
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Date
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1910~
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Lafayette A. Tillman Portrait
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Description
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Formal head and shoulders portrait of Lafayette A. Tillman wearing a police uniform.
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Date
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1914
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Edward R. Pate
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Description
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View of radio broadcaster Edward R. Pate conducting an interview. Pate is surrounded by children and other figures.
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Date
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1960~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Known And Unknown Colored Soldiers And Sailors Civil War Marker - Woodland Cemetery
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Description
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View of a marker dedicated to known and unknown Black soldiers and sailors who fought in the Civil War in Woodland Cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas. The monument was erected in 1905 by the Grand Army of the Republic Sumner Woman's Relief Corps No. 22. The Inscription reads: GAR - Erected in memory of the known and unknown colored soldiers and sailors who fought in defense of the Union from 1861 to 1865 by Sumner Relief Corp. No 22 through the special efforts of the national aides [line obliterated] Cora S. Dameron.
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Date
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1905~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Booker T. Washington
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Description
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File contains photograph of and pamphlet about Booker T. Washington.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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R.T. Coles School
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Description
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File contains programs for promotion ceremonies and description of program at R. T. Coles School from the Kansas City Star, August 31, 1915.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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African American Small Businesses
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Description
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File contains two copies of a brochure entitled "Clinic for Small Business" held at St. Stephens Baptist Church at Paseo at 15th Street in Kansas City, Missouri. It is dated April 17 and 18, 1946. The program for the clinic is outlined.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Hiram Young
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Description
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File contains typescript biography of Hiram Young, drawn mostly from acquaintances and family.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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African Americans in Literature
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Description
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File contains a copy of the poem "Toussaint L'Ouverture: Chateau de Joux, 1803," by Edward Arlington Robinson, reprinted in the November 30-December 4, 1931 issue of Current Literature.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Social Services for African Americans
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Description
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Folder contains Urban League pamphlet with essays: A Revelation of Base Qualities by Lester B. Granger; For a Wider Horizon by A. Philip Randolph; and Bigotry Cannot be Quarantined by Willard S. Townsend. Folder also contains report entitled Community Relations Project of the National Urban League by Ewell L. Newman, Case Work Specialist for Kansas City, Misssouri, April 1946.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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