The Call (Kansas City) - Alumni

Alumni

The Call has bragging rights to some famous alumni. One of these is Roy Wilkins, a reporter and managing editor from 1923-1931 who later wrote for The Crisis and an administrator to the NAACP, who also was influential in the passage of many acts including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

Frank A. (Fay) Young, the pioneering African American sportswriter served as managing editor of The Call from 1934-1937.

Another is Lucile Bluford, who was a KU alum as well as a reporter and managing editor for The Call. She was a staunch opponent of segregation, suing the University of Missouri for discriminating against her. After C.A. Franklin died in 1955, Bluford became part-owner and the head of The Call and remained so until her death in 2003.