Bluford vs. Canada, Civil Action No. 42: Letter from Kenneth Teasdale to Elwood E. Randol or Chester E. Stovall
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Letter from defense attorney Kenneth Teasdale to St. Louis Call managing editor Elwood E. Randol or Chester E. Stovall, editor of the paper, in Civil Action No. 42: Lucile Bluford v. S.W. Canada. Teasdale writes to inform the men that they will be receiving a subpoena ordering them to produce copies of specific issues of The Call from the years 1939 and 1940. 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 a series of lawsuits that eventually reached the Missouri Supreme Court.
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October 15th 1940
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300 N. Broadway Street
St. Louis, MO
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Publication, commercial use, or reproduction of this image or the accompanying data requires prior written permission from the National Archives at Kansas City. Use of this image also requires that credit be given to the National Archives at Kansas City.
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Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2009, Civil Case Files, 1938 - 1991, Lucile Bluford v. S. W. Canada
Digital Object Identifier:
NARA-42-0053
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