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Title
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Beyond a Calling
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Description
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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."
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Date
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2001-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Black History Quiz
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2002-02
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Case of Lloyd Lionel Gaines: The Demise of the Separate but Equal Doctrine
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Description
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Article about the United States Supreme Court case of Lloyd Lionel Gaines, or Lloyd Gaines, an African American from Saint Louis, Missouri who was denied admission to the University of Missouri because of his race in the 1930s. The Gaines case was continued in effect in the late 1930s by Lucile Bluford, a fellow African American and journalist with the Kansas City Call newspaper.
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Date
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1971-10-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Kansas City Crossroads: A Powerful Voice
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2001-11
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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People Who Made a Difference
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2000-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Project Hi Blood: A Door-to-Door Fight against Hypertension
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1975-02
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Truth in Black Ink: How Lucile Bluford Heard the Call and Penned Her Way Towards Black Feminist Activism
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Description
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This article compares local African American journalist Lucile Bluford with Ida B. Wells-Barnett, an earlier African American woman writer and activist from Memphis, Tennessee and later Chicago, Illinois. "Taken as a whole, both Bluford and Wells-Barnett are examples of women who carried on a larger cause beyond their own personal lives. Conceptually, both women carried their fights against racial injustice in the spirit of the original vision of the black press." Article explores how the two women used the black press to further their causes.
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Date
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2006
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
