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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: Lucile 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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