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Title
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Lucile Bluford
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Description
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Lucile Bluford attending opening of Bluford Branch of the Kansas City Public Library system in the summer of 1988.
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Date
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1988
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City Public Library, Bluford Branch
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Description
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Opening of Bluford Branch of Kansas City Public Library, showing Mayor Richard Berkley presenting plaque to Lucile Bluford.
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Date
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1988
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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SC226 John W. Bluford III Papers Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection contains biographical material, correspondence, articles, reports, presentations, photographs, DVDs, and publications highlighting the career of healthcare administrator John W. Bluford III. Bluford served in multiple administrative roles in Minneapolis, Minnesota, before becoming the Executive Director and CEO of Truman Medical Centers in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1998. He retired from that position in 2014 but has since continued his work in the field as the founder and president of the Bluford Healthcare Leadership Institute.
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Date
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1975/2017
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Federal Justice in Western Missouri: The Judges, the Cases, the Times
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Description
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Biographical description of Judge John Caskie Collet, a judge of Missouri's Western District during the end of the Pendergast machine. Includes a description of his life and career. He was born in 1898 in Chariton County, Missouri, become a lawyer in 1921, Missouri Supreme Court judge in 1935, and United States district judge in 1937. He was involved with the trials of Tom Pendergast and Lucile Bluford, the latter's case resulting in the establishment of "a small school of journalism at Lincoln University" for African American Missourians.
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Date
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1994
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Object Type
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Book