From Lucile Bluford to Dr. Sherman D. Scruggs

Letter from Lucile Bluford to Lincoln University President Sherman D. Scruggs requesting information on the planned journalism program to begin on February 1, 1942, at the university. She asks for details regarding faculty qualifications, student fees, and the availability of specific graduate coursework equivalent to that offered at the University of Missouri, and writes that she is interested in "practical courses in newspaper production" that would be of help in her work at The Call newspaper. She asserts that "the citizens of Missouri will be satisfied with nothing less than a School of Journalism that is equal in faculty, course offerings, library, etc., to the Journalism School" at MU. At the time, Bluford was the managing editor of the Kansas City Call and her effort to gain admittance to the masters degree program at MU's School of Journalism, and repeated denials due to her race, lead to a case that eventually was heard before the Missouri Supreme Court.