North First Street Redevelopment Program Research Files

North First Street, Research and Data, Community Development, Community Organizations, Businesses, Higher Education, Oral History, Politics and Activism, Religion, Discrimination

Research report prepared as part of a North First Street Redevelopment Program Research by Annalise Fonza in 2002. Includes transcriptions of interviews with with Lum Rose & Joe Taylor, Allan Penwell and John L. Johnson. Also includes two documents reflecting on the project by Annalise Fonza herself - the summary and the forward files.

Annalise Fonza

Unpublished research reports

2002

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Urbana High School Rosemary - 1990

Yearbooks, Education, School District 116, High Schools

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Urbana High School

Urbana High School

1990

History of the Bethel A.M.E. Church, Champaign, IL

Church History, Bethel A.M.E. Church

The Bethel Historical Committee is in the process of updating Bethel's early history. What follows is a compilation of information gathered from a variety of sources, including past Founder's Day programs. The Committee invites Bethel members, descendants of early members and community members with any written, visual, or oral history to share it with them.

Committee Co-Chairs: Estelle Merrifield and Erma Bridgewater. Minister: Rev. Steven A. Jackson

Bethel Historical Committee

February 1991

53rd Annual Men's Day Program - Salem Baptist Church

Church History, African-American Men

Special program for 53rd Annual Men's Day Church Service

November 15, 1998

Salem Baptist Church - New Sanctuary Dedication Program - "A New Beginning (Keeping Christ as the Focus)"

Church history

Commemorative program produced by Salem Baptist Church to celebrate the dedication of a new sanctuary built to the east of its 1909 Sanctuary. NOTE: Commemorative History separated from this file and available as separate file.

Salem Baptist Church

Doris K. Wylie Hoskins Archive

1993

North First Street Revitalization Project

North First Street

Two volume report on the proposed revitalization of North First Street, prepared by Urban Planning students under the direction of Leonard Heumann for the City of Champaign. In two volumes.

Urban Planning students

Fall 1993

Local quilt-makers featured in "Covering Our Heritage"

Quilts

Images of local quilt-makers whose quilts were featured in the Spring 1994 Krannert Art Museum exhibit "Covering Our Heritage." Photoed include: Luvata Bowles, Mary Louise McCoy, Pauline Gates Pelmore, Mamie Smith, Maudie Edwards, and Emma Brant

Doris Hoskins papers

Spring 1994

Mary Avant

Quilts

Photographs of local African-American quilter Mary Avant.

Doris Hoskins papers

Spring 1994

Applique quilt pieced by Landau Cannon Butler; quilted years later by Mary Avant and often at Douglas Annex, Champaign Park District

Quilts

Quilt displayed as part of Krannert Art Museum exhibit on African-American quilting in Champaign-Urbana. Exhibit took place in Spring 1994.

Doris Hoskins papers

1994

Opening of "Covering Our Heritage" exhibit at Krannert Art Museum.

Quilts

"Covering Our Heritage" was an exhibit that took place at Krannert Art Museum in Spring 1994 and featured local African-American quilt-makers. In these images from the exhibit opening: Roger Cooper gives a dramatic reading; Rosemary Cooper introduced Roger Cooper and Todd Rent; Todd Rent performs on piano; a visitor listening to oral history tape in the exhibit hall; and visitors tour the exhibit.

Doris Hoskins papers

January 21, 1994