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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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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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1990~/1999~
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Photograph
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Lucile Bluford
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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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1995-04-08
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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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Object Type
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Photograph
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Kansas City Public Library, Bluford Branch
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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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1988
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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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Beyond a Calling
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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."
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2001-09
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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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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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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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1971-10-01
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Object Type
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Magazine 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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2002-02
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Object Type
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Magazine 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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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
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