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Title: Lucile Bluford
Description: Photos and information on Lucile Bluford, publisher and editor of the Kansas City Call black newsletter starting in 1955. Second black graduate of the University of Kansas School of Journalism and namesake of the Bluford Branch Library of the Kansas City Public Library system.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Lucile Bluford
Description: Lucile Bluford attending opening of Bluford Branch of the Kansas City Public Library system in the summer of 1988.
Date: 1988
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Lucile Bluford
Description: Interior view of Lucile Bluford seated and surrounded by others. Probably taken at a library sponsored event at the Bluford branch of the Kansas City Public Library.
Date: 1990~/1999~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Lucile Bluford
Description: A section of this MA thesis includes information about Lucile Bluford, local journalist and civil rights activist. She was born on July 1, 1911, in Salisbury, North Carolina, and came to Kansas City with her family in 1921. Her journalism as well as her civil rights activities are mentioned.
Date: 2006-04
Object Type: Thesis/Dissertation

Title: Lucile Bluford
Description: Interior view, which incudes Lucile Bluford in the center, Kansas City Library Board member Olivia Dorsey on the left and Stacy Daniels on the right. Includes bust of Miss Bluford behind the women. Taken at the Bluford branch of the Kansas City Public Library.
Date: 1995-04-08
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Journalist Lucile Bluford Dies
Description: Front page story and obituary for local African American journalist Lucile Bluford. She died Friday, June 13, 2003, at Baptist-Lutheran Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri. She was 91 years of age. She had served for many years as editor and publisher of "The Kansas City Call", the main African American Kansas City newspaper. The article contains two photographs of her and a time-line of her career highlights. She was also featured on the editorial page of the newspaper on the same day.
Date: 2003-06-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Lucile Bluford and Derrick Thomas
Description: Interior view with Lucile Bluford and Kansas City Chief player Derrick Thomas. Probably taken at a library sponsored event.
Date: 1990~/1999~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: [The black press]
Description: A 13 page photocopied typescript of a transcript of a speech given by the author at an unidentified event.
Object Type: Manuscript

Title: Carrying on Legacy of Lucile Bluford
Description: Article describes the link between the careers of Vernon Jarrett and Lucile Bluford. Jarrett, a pioneering African American journalist, was inspired by Lucile Bluford's work at the Kansas City Call after his own writing career was damaged by McCarthyism.
Date: 2004-02-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Writing for Rights: The Lucile H. Bluford Story
Description: Summarizes the life of Kansas City's foremost black journalist.
Date: 1987
Object Type: Audio Visual

Title: Kansas City Public Library, Bluford Branch
Description: Opening of Bluford Branch of Kansas City Public Library, showing Mayor Richard Berkley presenting plaque to Lucile Bluford.
Date: 1988
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Biography of Lucile H. Bluford (1911-2003), Journalist and Former Owner/Publisher of "The Call" Newspaper
Date: 2004
Object Type: Biography

Title: Truth in Black Ink: How Lucile Bluford Heard the Call and Penned Her Way Towards Black Feminist Activism
Description: This article compares local African American journalist Lucile Bluford with Ida B. Wells-Barnett, an earlier African American woman writer and activist from Memphis, Tennessee and later Chicago, Illinois. "Taken as a whole, both Bluford and Wells-Barnett are examples of women who carried on a larger cause beyond their own personal lives. Conceptually, both women carried their fights against racial injustice in the spirit of the original vision of the black press." Article explores how the two women used the black press to further their causes.
Date: 2006
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Storming and Defending the Color Barrier At the University of Missouri School of Journalism: the Lucile Bluford Case
Description: A 20 page typewritten paper with footnotes written by Diane E. Loupe, graduate student at the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia. It was originally written for a graduate journalism history course. Lucile Bluford, an African American, attempted to enroll at the School of Journalism in the late 1930s.
Date: 1989
Object Type: Manuscript

Title: Beyond a Calling
Description: Photos and biographical article about Lucile Bluford, 90-year-old African American "editor and part owner of 'The Kansas City Call' newspaper" since 1955. Native of North Carolina raised partly in Kansas City and joining the Call's staff in the early 1930s, becoming "one of the most prestigious journalists in Kansas City history."
Date: 2001-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Case of Lloyd Lionel Gaines: The Demise of the Separate but Equal Doctrine
Description: Article about the United States Supreme Court case of Lloyd Lionel Gaines, or Lloyd Gaines, an African American from Saint Louis, Missouri who was denied admission to the University of Missouri because of his race in the 1930s. The Gaines case was continued in effect in the late 1930s by Lucile Bluford, a fellow African American and journalist with the Kansas City Call newspaper.
Date: 1971-10-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

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