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Title: Lucile Bluford
Description: 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.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Lucile Bluford
Description: Lucile Bluford attending opening of Bluford Branch of the Kansas City Public Library system in the summer of 1988.
Date: 1988
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Lucile Bluford
Description: 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.
Date: 1990~/1999~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Lucile Bluford
Description: 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.
Date: 2006-04
Object Type: Thesis/Dissertation

Title: Journalist Lucile Bluford Dies
Description: 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.
Date: 2003-06-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Lucile H. Bluford Branch Library
Description: Partial frontal view of library entrance, located at 3050 Prospect.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Lucile H. Bluford Branch Library
Description: Partial side view, at night.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Lucile Bluford and Derrick Thomas
Description: Interior view with Lucile Bluford and Kansas City Chief player Derrick Thomas. Probably taken at a library sponsored event.
Date: 1990~/1999~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Lucille Bluford
Description: 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.
Date: 1995-04-08
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Chester Arthur Franklin, 1880-1955
Description: A 7 page photocopied transcript of a speech given on May 5, 1968 at the dedication of the Chester A. Franklin Elementary School.
Date: 1968
Object Type: Manuscript

Title: [The black press]
Description: A 13 page photocopied typescript of a transcript of a speech given by the author at an unidentified event.
Object Type: Manuscript

Title: Carrying on Legacy of Lucile Bluford
Description: 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.
Date: 2004-02-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Bluford Branch Library
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Kansas City Public Library, Lucile H. Bluford Branch Library
Description: Partial side view of building entrance.
Date: 1990
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Lucile Bluford: The Chamber's 2002 Kansas Citian of the Year
Description: Article describes the awarding of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce "Kansas Citian of the Year" honor to journalist Lucile Bluford.
Date: 2002-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Writing for Rights: The Lucile H. Bluford Story
Description: Summarizes the life of Kansas City's foremost black journalist.
Date: 1987
Object Type: Audio Visual

Title: Roy Willkins, Famous Leader, Worked First For THE CALL
Description: 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.
Date: 2010-07-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Kansas City Public Library, Bluford Branch
Description: Opening of Bluford Branch of Kansas City Public Library, showing Mayor Richard Berkley presenting plaque to Lucile Bluford.
Date: 1988
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Biography of Lucile H. Bluford (1911-2003), Journalist and Former Owner/Publisher of "The Call" Newspaper
Date: 2004
Object Type: Biography

Title: Other Newspapers Discuss: Lucille Bluford Rates 'A' at Home
Description: 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.
Date: 1972-07-11
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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