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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: 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: 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: 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