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Title
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Lucile Bluford
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Description
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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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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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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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Title
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Carrying on Legacy of Lucile Bluford
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2004-02-06
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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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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Description
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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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Title
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Beyond a Calling
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Description
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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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Date
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2001-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
