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Video property of WCIA 3 News in Champaign, IL.

The Heavenly Seven filled over 600 backpacks with school supplies and handed them out to underprivileged families around the Champaign area.

From the book's back cover: This Life Ain’t Gravy follows the experiences of Justin, an African American teenager, and his white mentor Dylan. While Justin is struggling through junior high and high school in Champaign, Illinois, Dylan is…

Includes multiple references and comments on the Consent Decree and related issues involving racism in local public schooling.

Page, including notes and readings, of Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities reading group, Law, Race and Space, includes notes on various issues facing African-Americans in Champaign-Urbana.

Includes files on various community groups in Champaign, including the Elks, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Deborah Chapter, Free Masons, fraternities, sororities, and other social organizations composed and led by African-Americans in Champaign-Urbana…

Includes photographs dating to early twentieth century, African-American applicants to the school and Doris Hoskins' notes on an article on the School prepared for the Through the Years newsletter.

File on the Albert Shelton Laundry and Shelton family, one of the largest regional black-owned businesses in Champaign-Urbana in the twentieth century.

Look for Blacks in index for references to African-American history at the County-wide level.