Bruce Watkins Dies after Long Fight with Cancer
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Bruce Watkins Dies after Long Fight with Cancer
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Photos and obituary for Bruce Watkins, "56, a longtime community leader and co-founder of Freedom, Inc.," dying on September 14, 1980. "[F]ormer city councilman [for the third district in 1963 and for the fifth district in 1975] who had fought a battle with cancer since losing his bid to become the city's first black mayor." Raised in Parkville, Missouri and becoming "president of Watkins Brothers Memorial Chapels, one of the oldest black family businesses in Kansas City."
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1980-09-14
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Related Item
The Kansas City Star
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Note(s)
Bruce Watkins ran for mayor of Kansas City in 1979 but lost to Richard Berkley.
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Shelf Locator
Microfilm
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Restriction on Access
This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests
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