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Re-visiting of the state of African-Americans in Champaign County. See "Community Report" in eBlackCU for the 1948 report.

NOTE: Papers located at Champaign County Historical Archives, Urbana Free Library. The Virgil Wikoff materials span the entirety of Wikoff’s political career, from his election to the
Champaign City Council to his last term as State…

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Files on various programs in the North End housed at the Champaign County Historical Archives. Includes information on the Community Advocacy Dept, Progress Association for Economic Development, North End Gospel, North Urbana, and a four-part series…

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Clippings file on the Lone Star Lounge and African-American Masons. Champaign County Historical Archives.

"Colored Masons. A consistory Instuited Among Them in Champaign"

"Black Lodge gets new home" by Paul Wood (News-Gazette) April 21, 2000

Clippings file on North First Street at the Champaign County Historical Archives. Includes historic preservation reports on buildings on North First Street prepared by the Preservation and Conservation Association (PACA).

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Clippings file for the Progress Association for Economic Development, a social service agency on the 100-block of North First Street in the 1970s. Clippings file at the Champaign County Historical Archives, Urbana Free Library.

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File on the Community Advocacy Depot, located on the 100-block of North First Street in the 1970s, in the Urban League Archive, in the Champaign County Historical Archives, Urbana Free Library.

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Let's Talk!

Flyer distributed by the Black Community Network to advertise a community meeting hosted by the Concerned Citizens for a Better Neighborhood at the Douglas Annex.
S.O.U.L. - The Black Brotherhood for Progressive Black People

Flyer distributed by S.O.U.L., a civil rights group active in the late 1960s and early 1970s. S.O.U.L. stands for Security, Opportunity, Unity, Love.

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North First Street Outdoor Photographs

Photographs of North First Street taken in the mid-1980s. Locations photographed include Our Place Barber Shop, Lone Star Lounge, Candy's Lounge, Champaign Cattle Bank Museum, Brown's Cafe, D'Ghanza Beauty Salon, Jackson's Open Pit BBQ and Lounge.

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