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Title: Truth in Black Ink: How Lucile Bluford Heard the Call and Penned Her Way Towards Black Feminist Activism
Description: 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.
Date: 2006
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Storming and Defending the Color Barrier At the University of Missouri School of Journalism: the Lucile Bluford Case
Description: A 20 page typewritten paper with footnotes written by Diane E. Loupe, graduate student at the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia. It was originally written for a graduate journalism history course. Lucile Bluford, an African American, attempted to enroll at the School of Journalism in the late 1930s.
Date: 1989
Object Type: Manuscript

Title: Beyond a Calling
Description: 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."
Date: 2001-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City Call
Description: File contains Information about Lucile Bluford (born about 1914), the editor and publisher of the Kansas City Call newpaper starting in 1955 after graduating from the University of Kansas with a degreee in journalism in 1932 (after experiencing discrimination with the University of Missouri) and working with the paper for many years.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Kansas City Crossroads: A Powerful Voice
Description: 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.
Date: 2001-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: SC226 John W. Bluford III Papers Finding Aid
Description: 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.
Date: 1975/2017
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: The Case of Lloyd Lionel Gaines: The Demise of the Separate but Equal Doctrine
Description: 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.
Date: 1971-10-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Don't Forget Local Black Achievement
Description: 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.
Date: 1985-02-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Miss Elsie M. Mountain to Head Council
Description: 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.
Date: 1939-01-27
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Capstone Awards
Description: 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.
Date: 2011-04-29
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Black History Quiz
Description: 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.
Date: 2002-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Black Vanguard Less Visible Now
Description: 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.
Date: 1975-04-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Project Hi Blood: A Door-to-Door Fight against Hypertension
Description: 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.
Date: 1975-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Federal Justice in Western Missouri: The Judges, the Cases, the Times
Description: 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.
Date: 1994
Object Type: Book

Title: History of Freedom, Inc., and Its Early Leaders
Description: 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.
Date: 2006-04
Object Type: Thesis/Dissertation