Slides for a presentation on the History of the Park Street Mural (Fifth and Park Street, Champaign)

Murals, Black Arts Movement, CETA, youth

Presentation made in October 2009.

Angela Rivers

October 2009 (1978)

Douglass Library Foundational Documents and Newsletters

Douglass Branch, Douglass Library, Douglass Center, Black Power

Records from the Douglass Library.

Douglass Library

1971

C.D. Nesbitt and Glory Center International Videos and Newsletters

Gospel, Religion, Evangelical, Glory Center

youtube.com

Articles on North End

North End, Segregation, Media--News-Gazette

Series on North End in News-Gazette

News-Gazette

June 1988

Cheryl Thompson

Text

Document

Jesse Clements

Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club Photographs

1960s

English Brothers Files - Douglass Center Construction

Douglass Center, Archival Records, Black Power, Construction, Urban Renewal, Robert Toalson, Champaign Park District

Files of the English Brothers, a local construction firm, regarding the construction of the new Douglass Center in the 1970s.

English Brothers

unpublished records

ca. 1975

Michael Burns, PhD student, Writing Studies, UIUC

Speak Cafe video and flyers

spoken word poetry, black power, krannert art museum, aaron ammons

The hottest and fastest growing spoken word/poetry set in Central Illinois. Poets from Champaign-Urbana, Chicago, St. Louis, Decatur, Bloomington, Springfield, and even Texas. Well known artists such as Sonia Sanchez, Eugene Redmond and Malik Yusef have graced the stage at SPEAK CAFE'!

The fastest growing poetry\spoken word event in Central Illinois. Greats such as Eugene Redmond and Sonia Sanchez have graced our stage. Also, Grammy award winning artist Malik Yusef just recently brought his windy city flavor to Speak Cafe'. We only open six times a year (Sept, Oct, Nov, Feb, March and April) so don't miss your chance to hear some of the hottest poets in the game. Aaron Ammons a.k.a Brotha A-Dub is the host, we have a live DJ and sweet potato pie!

Aaron Ammons

http://www.youtube.com/

November 2010 and February 2011

February 2011 News-Gazette clippings

January 2011 News-Gazette clippings