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

Title: People Who Made a Difference
Description: Photos and biographical descriptions of "20 people who we believe had the greatest lasting impact on Kansas City and helped to define our city today": (1) Berenice Chouteau, (2) Father Bernard Donnelly, (3) Sarah Chandler Coates, or Sarah Coates, (4) George Kessler, (5-6) Ella and Jacob Loose, (7) William Rockhill Nelson, (8) William Volker, (9) Tom Pendergast, (10) J. C. Nichols, (11) Harry Truman, (12) Chester Arthur Franklin, or Chester Franklin, (13) Bennie Moten, (14) Lucile Bluford, (15) Joyce Hall, (16) Ilus Davis, (17) Bruce Waltkins, (18) Ewing Kauffman, (19) Dr. Patricia McIlrath, and (20) Buck O'Neil.
Date: 2000-05
Object Type: Magazine Article