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This research proposes a basic housing gap model that can assist in the decision making process
related housing construction and rehabilitation programs. This model is then applied to the
community. of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, to examine how…
Gardenia Club folder

Photograph by George H. Smith, 117 W. Birch, Champaign, IL Phone: 8912 or 8548
Les Femmes folder

Included in image are: Back row - Helen (Holt) Bracy, Myrtle Pickens, Alice (Williams) Bishop, Icelean Clark, Sylvia Williams, Charlesetta Campbell, Frances Moreland, Ruthie DeShong, Theresa Simpson; Second Row - Pauline Johnson, Margaret Hite, Ruth…

Auto-biography of Khair Ali (Freddie Davis/Fred Davis) documenting his migration to Champaign in the 1950s, discrimination, his boxing career, his conversion to the Nation of Islam, his musical career and the cultural life of African-Americans in…

From Introduction: "The story of a Black student movement and higher educational reform
is reconstructed by examining the in-between layers, the layers
between the national level and the local level, between reform initiatives
and the actual…

In 1965, a faculty-student group discussing problems
in Mississippi and Champaign-Urbana at the University
YMCA noted the lack of a list of the University of
Illinois' resources and projects to benefit the disadvantaged.
Profs. Demitri Shimkin…

The goal of the Black Women in the Middle West
Project was to collect and preserve photographs and
other documents that record the historical experiences
and accomplishments of Black women and their organizations
throughout Illinois and Indiana.…
Vegetable View North First Street, News Gazette clipping

Photo on the unveiling of the North First Street Business Association/Farmer's Market Prosperity Garden, located north of the Police Station. Photo includes: Kina Lemons, Evan Blondell and Janet Broughton.

Photo album from the Early American Museum. Contains photo documentation of African-American life in the early twentieth century.

Binder on Project 500 and broader movement of make the University of Illinois more accessible for local African-Americans, especially in cultural programming. Contains archival documents, correspondence, photographs and more.