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The research project "Higher Education Public Service Responsibilities in the Black Community" (PSR) has centered around the public service role of the University of Illin01s and Parkland College in the black community of Champaign-Urbana. The…

NOTE: Papers located at Champaign County Historical Archives, Urbana Free Library. The Virgil Wikoff materials span the entirety of Wikoff’s political career, from his election to the
Champaign City Council to his last term as State…

File from the John Lee Johnson Papers on a proposed, but never implemented, community technology center to be located in a former church in North Urbana. Scans are low-resolution.

Photograph of members of Salem Baptist Church. Photographed include: Rev. O.B. Johnson, Mrs. Garland, Rev. Webb, Rev. Martin, Mrs. Benton, Mrs. Bowles, Blanche Johnson, Ruth Hendricks, Mrs. Clark, Harriet Chandler, Albert McKinley Jr., Mrs.…

Photograph of Salem Gospel Choir, circa 1950 or 1960. Photographed include: Willa Mae Pickens, Mr. T. Bowles, Mrs. L. Benton, Katie Harper, Lucille Clark, Helen Hite, Hattie Anderson, Mrs. L. Bowles and Roxie Steele. Not all individuals identified.…

Photographs of Willa Mae Varnado Pickens (d. May 15, 1960), who was director of Music at Salem Baptist Church.

Photographs of Helen Johnson and the Salem Pre-School in the mid-1950s. The first photograph is badly deteriorated.

Lee Eilbrchet, UIUC alum, donated these photographs to Doris Hoskins in the mid-1990s. They appear to depict a ground-breaking at Salem Baptist Church, perhaps of an annex constructed in the mid-1950s. Please help us improve this caption by…

Sat, 03/06/2010 - 2:00am | Patrick Wade
CHAMPAIGN – After more than 11 years of restriction, one-way traffic in the Bristol Place neighborhood will become two-way Tuesday, but those involved say it is more than just the city taking down a…