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Title: Posthumous Law Degree Granted
Description: Lloyd Gaines, the former Missouri college student who disappeared nearly 70 years ago during a landmark legal struggle against segregation, has a new title: attorney at law. The state Supreme Court on Thursday awarded Gaines a posthumous law license at the Missouri Bar's annual convention, honoring the man who in 1938 successfully sued to gain admission to the all-white University of Missouri law school. Gaines disappeared before he could enroll at the university. He was last seen leaving a Chicago boarding house in 1939. Includes his picture.
Date: 2006-09-29
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Mining for More Minorities
Description: Article discusses how area colleges have intensified efforts to recuirt more Hispanics and African-Americans. Includes chart of Enrollment Gains for University of Kansas; University of Missouri-Columbia; and Kansas State University.
Date: 2005-08-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Meet Your Neighbors: The First Black Professor at MU
Description: Biography of the "first black full professor" at the University of Missouri, Dr. Arvarh Strickland, from 1969 to 1996.
Date: 1996
Object Type: Magazine 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

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