Files on the Albert Lee Family

Churches--Bethel A.M.E. Church, Education--Higher--University of Illinois

From Doris K. Wylie Hosksins Archive for Cultural Diversity. Lee was a leader at Bethel A.M.E. Church and the "unofficial" dean of Black students at the University of Illinois in the early 20th century.

1930s

Article in Courier on a "purloined fowl" on North First Street

From the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection.

Urbana Daily Courier

February 29, 1924

Play Ball, Part II - Through the Years: African-American History in Champaign County

Sports and Recreation--Baseball, Biography, History, Media--Through the Years, Media--Courier, Men, Segregation

Part two of this special feature on African-American baseball leagues and teams focuses on the Champaign Eagles, part of the Eastern Illinois League in the 1950s and 1960s. Features personal reminiscences by Ernie Westfield, J.W. Pirtle, Bud Johnson, Tracy Parsons, Peter MacFarland, and Alicia Lowery.

African-American Network of the Early American Museum, Champaign County Forest Preserve District, Through the Years

Fall 2007

Cheryl Kennedy, Alicia Lowery

Play Ball, Part I - Through the Years

Sports and Recreation--Baseball, Biography, History, Media--Through the Years, Media--Courier, Men, Segregation

Tells stories about Negro League Baseball and its impact locally. Features biographies of individual players, such as John C. Johnson, Sr, Vernon C. Lewis, and Elsa Utley, as well as clippings from local newspapers describing the League.

African American Network of the Early American Museum, Champaign County Forest Preserve District, Through the Years

2006

Cheryl Kennedy, Alicia Lowery