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Lucile Bluford
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Description
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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.
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Vertical File
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Lucile Bluford
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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.
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Date
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1995-04-08
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Journalist Lucile Bluford Dies
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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.
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Date
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2003-06-14
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Lucile Bluford and Derrick Thomas
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Interior view with Lucile Bluford and Kansas City Chief player Derrick Thomas. Probably taken at a library sponsored event.
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Date
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1990~/1999~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Roy Willkins, Famous Leader, Worked First For THE CALL
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Biographical article includes Roy Wilkins' experiences during the eight years that he was managing editor of THE CALL. The discrimination he experienced while living in Kansas City led him to become active in the NAACP and led to the invitation by Walter White to be his chief assistant in the New York office of the association.
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Date
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2010-07-09
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Other Newspapers Discuss: Lucille Bluford Rates 'A' at Home
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Description
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Biographic profile of Lucille Bluford, a prominent editor of the black newspaper "The Call" (also called the "Kansas City Call"). Born about 1914 and becoming the first black person to be admitted to the University of Missouri's School of Journalism, the oldest of its kind in the nation.
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Date
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1972-07-11
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Kansas City Crossroads: A Powerful Voice
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Description
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Illustration and article about the history of the Kansas City Call, established in 1919 as the "city's weekly newspaper" and prominent voice of the black community. Description of its founder Chester Franklin, later editor and publisher Lucile Bluford, and other journalists.
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Date
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2001-11
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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The Case of Lloyd Lionel Gaines: The Demise of the Separate but Equal Doctrine
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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.
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Date
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1971-10-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Miss Elsie M. Mountain to Head Council
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Description
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File containing an article about Miss Elsie Mountain, "executive secretary of the Paseo branch Y.W.C.A." being elected "president of the Kansas City council of the National Negro congress." Other officers of the organization included Lucile Bluford, treasurer.
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Date
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1939-01-27
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Black History Quiz
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Ten questions and answers on topics pertaining to Black history in Kansas City. Individuals, places, and organizations included in questions: Roy Wilkins; Negro National League (baseball); Lucile Bluford; Quindaro, Kansas; Charlie Parker; Community Committee for Social Action; John E. Perry; Sumner High School; George Dudley.
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Date
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2002-02
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Black Vanguard Less Visible Now
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File containing portraits and a biographical article about the decline in leadership in the local black community with depictions and descriptions of the following former black leaders here: Chester Franklin, Leon Jordan, Daniel Holmes, Lucile Bluford, Bruce Watkins, Doretta Henderson, Girard Bryant, Reverend John Williams, Mamie Hughes, Julia Hill, and Bernard Powell.
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Date
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1975-04-06
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Project Hi Blood: A Door-to-Door Fight against Hypertension
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Photos and article about "Project Hi Blood, a model out-reach program to locate and treat hypertension victims," especially poor blacks "throughout Kansas City, Mo., ghetto" and headquartered at "the new $2 million Wayne Miner Neighborhood Health Center in Kansas City." Photos and descriptions of prominent local African Americans involved such as Dr. Samuel Rodgers and Lucile Bluford.
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Date
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1975-02
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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