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Lucile Bluford, journalist for the Kansas City Call, was an early Black female trailblazer in Kansas City.
Lucile Bluford, a journalist and civil rights activist who successfully sued to end segregation in the University of Missouri journalism program.!
Lucile Bluford
Lucile Harris Bluford (July 1, 1911 – June 13, 2003) was a journalist and opponent of segregation in America's education system, and after whom the Lucile H.
Bluford Branch of the Kansas City Public Library is named.[1][2]
Early life
Lucile Bluford was born on July 1, 1911, in Salisbury, North Carolina, to John Henry Bluford and Viola Harris Bluford.[3] Her father was a professor at the state's Agricultural and Technical College.[4] In 1921 when Bluford was 10, and upon the death of his mother, John Bluford accepted a position teaching science at Lincoln High School in Kansas City, Missouri.[5][6] Bluford attended Wendell Phillips Elementary and Lincoln High School.
At a young age, she was exposed to segregated education, as Missouri was a Jim Crow state that adhered to "separate but equal" doctrine.[5]
Career
Bluford was encouraged in her interest in journalism by a high school English