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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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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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Photograph
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Title
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Lucile Bluford
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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.
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Date
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1990~/1999~
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Photograph
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Lucile Bluford
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Description
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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.
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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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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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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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Photograph
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Chester Arthur Franklin, 1880-1955
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Description
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A 7 page photocopied transcript of a speech given on May 5, 1968 at the dedication of the Chester A. Franklin Elementary School.
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Date
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1968
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Object Type
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Manuscript
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Title
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[The black press]
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Description
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A 13 page photocopied typescript of a transcript of a speech given by the author at an unidentified event.
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Manuscript
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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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Truth in Black Ink: How Lucile Bluford Heard the Call and Penned Her Way Towards Black Feminist Activism
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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.
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Date
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2006
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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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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The Case of Lloyd Lionel Gaines: The Demise of the Separate but Equal Doctrine
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Description
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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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Title
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Black History Quiz
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Description
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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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