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.…
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.