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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 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: 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: 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: 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

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

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