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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