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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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Description
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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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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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1972-07-11
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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SC226 John W. Bluford III Papers Finding Aid
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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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Don't Forget Local Black Achievement
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News article about local black achievement in the context of Black History Month. Several prominent African Americans are mentioned, such as Chester Franklin, Roy Wilkins (an NAACP leader), Lucile Bluford, Edward Wilson ("the city's first black fire chief"), Lee Vertis Swinton, or Lee Swinton ("Missouri's first black senator from Kansas City"), Bruce Watkins, Bernard Powell ("slain community activist"), and Alan Wheat.
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Date
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1985-02-06
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Object Type
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Newspaper 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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Capstone Awards
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The sixth-annual Capstone Awards is a supplement to the Kansas City Business Journal, which "honors outstanding real estate development projects and transactions throughout the community." Some of the projects include the renovation of the Lucile H. Bluford Branch of the Kansas City Public Library, Arrowhead Stadium, UMKC Studen Union, Millor Nichols Library, and the kcICON Project.
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Date
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2011-04-29
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Black Vanguard Less Visible Now
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Description
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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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Title
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Federal Justice in Western Missouri: The Judges, the Cases, the Times
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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
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Title
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History of Freedom, Inc., and Its Early Leaders
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Description
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This Master of Arts thesis presents information on the local political organization called Freedom, Inc. as well as a biographies of two of its early leaders, Bruce Watkins and Leon Jordan. According to the author's abstract, Freedom Inc., a non-profit organization was "created to politically inform the African-American community, develop African-American candidates for political office, and mobilize the vote in Kansas City, Missouri." Included also is discussion on the civil rights struggle in Kansas City in the 1950s and 1960s as well as information on "The Kansas City Call" newspaper and Lucile Bluford. Includes an eight-page bibliography on the topic.
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Date
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2006-04
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Object Type
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Thesis/Dissertation
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