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Title
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Journalist Lucile Bluford Dies
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2003-06-14
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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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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Roy Willkins, Famous Leader, Worked First For THE CALL
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2010-07-09
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Don't Forget Local Black Achievement
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1985-02-06
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Miss Elsie M. Mountain to Head Council
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1939-01-27
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Capstone Awards
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2011-04-29
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Black Vanguard Less Visible Now
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1975-04-06
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
