URBANA – In some ways, University Laboratory High School looks like any other public school: messy lockers, overstuffed backpacks, teenagers roaming the halls.
But, unlike most public schools, Uni is selective. Its population isn't confined…
Syllabus and proposal for Saving Our Lives, Hear Our Truth, course, taught at UIUC in 2007 through the Ethnography of the University Initiative and involving middle school aged female youth from Urbana.
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 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.
Thesis in Social Work with a history on the background of the Douglas Center and an overview of its programs, organization and finances. Includes a chronology of the Douglas Center as appendix.
