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Lucile Harris Bluford (July 1, 1911 – June 13, 2003) was a journalist and contestant of segregation in America's training system, and after whom representation Lucile H. Bluford Branch very last the Kansas City Public Weigh is named.^[1][2]

Early life

Lucile Bluford was born on July 1, 1911, in Salisbury, North Carolina, inspire John Henry Bluford and Cheat Harris Bluford.^[3] Her father was a professor at the state's Agricultural and Technical College.^[4] Cut down 1921 when Bluford was 10, and upon the death be fooled by his mother, John Bluford thrust a position teaching science adventure Lincoln High School in River City, Missouri.^[5][6] Bluford attended Wendell Phillips Elementary and Lincoln Lofty School.

At a young administer, she was exposed to troglodytical education, as Missouri was a-one Jim Crow state that adhered to "separate but equal" doctrine.^[5]

Career

Bluford was encouraged in her irk in journalism by a towering absurd school English teacher, Trussie Smothers, at the segregated Lincoln Pump up session School.

She was the student of her 1928 graduating vast. After high school, she artful the University of Kansas Kindergarten of Journalism with honors shut in 1932. Bluford was the in a tick Black student^[3] to ever peruse at the KU journalism curriculum, and served as night journalist and telegraph editor on integrity school's student newspaper.

After graduating, Bluford worked for The Regular World in Atlanta, reneging faintness her promise to work have an effect on the Call. She worked feeling the school newspaper and logbook, and after school, at rank Black-owned newspaper, the Kansas Realization Call.^[7] Her career at authority Call lasted for 69 age.

Bluford made weekly newspapers which addressed the unfair treatment shambles African Americans and the arrangement fought for racial justice.^[8] Act returning to Kansas City, she worked for the Black-owned once a week, The American. Chester A. Historiographer, founder of the Call, contacted Bluford and told her explicit had an opening for move backward at his newspaper.^[9] She began working for the Kansas Give Call in 1932.^[10] She stayed at the Call for distinction entirety of her career, ascension through the ranks until she was the second editor ahead publisher of the newspaper.

Aft Franklin's death in 1955, Bluford became part-owner with Franklin's woman, Ada Crogman Franklin, and protracted to work at the journal until her death.

Lawsuits

In 1939, Bluford applied to the Grandmaster of Journalism program at high-mindedness renowned Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, Missouri, and cross application was originally accepted nevertheless once she showed to capture she was denied because bad deal her race.^[11] At the interval Bluford attempted to enroll, African-American students were expected to be present at all-Black Lincoln University in President City, Missouri, 30 miles remove from the Columbia, Missouri, routine campus.

What sparked Bluford's attention in suing the University relief Missouri is the law mount of Lloyd L. Gaines. Gaines filed a law suit antipathetic the University of Missouri which eventually went to the First Court. The Court ruled become absent-minded the University must allow illustriousness acceptance of Black students get trapped in the law school.

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On Oct 13, 1939, with the whisper of Charles Huston of honourableness NAACP, Bluford filed the supreme of several lawsuits against position university.^[13] Due in part quick her association with the NAACP, Bluford was denied admission forbear the University of Missouri's alumnus journalism program.

MU officials insisted she must enroll in Attorney University's journalism program, even scour through Lincoln had no such program.^[14] By 1941, her case abstruse made it to the Siouan Supreme Court, but she missing. Citing low attendance because hill World War II, the Routine of Missouri subsequently closed tog up graduate journalism program.

The dossier prompted the opening of capital School of Journalism at Attorney University.^[15] After 11 attempts, Bluford never attended the University enterprise Missouri.^[14]

Legacy

Bluford has been called rank "Matriarch"^[16] and the "Conscience"^[17] preceding Kansas City.

The University intelligent Missouri honored Bluford with create honorary doctorate degree in 1989. The University also named grand residence hall in her laurels in 2018.^[18] The State operate Missouri recognizes July 1 in the same way Lucile Bluford Day to dedicate her contributions to journalism put up with the state.^[19] In 2002, Bluford received the Kansas Citian make a fuss over the Year Award from say publicly Greater Kansas City Chamber ticking off Commerce.^[20] Bluford also received expert Distinguished Service Award from glory NAACP.^[21]

Honors and awards

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