Articles on the Civil War and African-Americans in Champaign-Urbana

Civil War, African-American Churches

Articles have both original scans and transcriptions.

ca. 1859-1866

Champaign County African-American History Committee Photos

African-American History, Early American Museum

Photos from CCAAHC events at Early American Museum, Lincoln Square Mall and Douglass Center. Erma Bridgewater, Carrie Pope, Doris K. Wylie Hoskins, among others, featured.

ca. mid-1990s

Memory Workshop Photographs and Memory Maps

Mapping, Memory

IN PROGRESS - names of participants will be posted here shortly. Add your memory map by clicking contribute above.

October 2009

African American Newspaper Clippings

Clippings from throughout Twentieth Century

UC2B Policy Committee Meeting Video - featuring Ministers of North Champaign-Urbana

UC2B, activism, big broadband, religious community, churches, Bethel, Metanoia, New Hope

Revs. Larry Lewis, Dr. Eugene Barnes and Charles O. Nash, as well as others in the community, present their letter to the UC2B policy committee, at a February 2011 meeting. This letter, which was written by the pastors, and signed by 15 pastors in the UC2B target area, sought to press UC2B to provide direct community benefits through its program through a rebate program to go through the churches.

Community Engagement Course, GSLIS

February 2011

Doris K. Wylie Hoskins Archives for Cultural Diversity Scrapbook Collection

Local History, Early 20th Century, Family History, Scrapbooking

Scrapbooks from multiple sources. Please help us provide better access to this material - add your memories by hitting Contact Us or Contribute above

multiple

ca. 1910-1990

Documentation from Angela Rivers visit to the University of Illinois

Mural, Black Arts Movement, Mapping, Cartography, Local History, Oral History, Rivers Family

See http://eblackcu.net/mural/ for more information on this project.

Angela Rivers, Community Informatics Initiative

October 2009

Articles on Segregation and North First Street

Music, Jazz, Crime, Barbershop, Segregation, North End

From Microfilm copies

Negro League Photographs

Baseball, Eagles, Bud Johnson

Drum Corps Photographs

Douglass Park, Douglass Center, Black Power

Photographs of Drum Corps from 1960s/1970s