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Injustice Sheltered: Race Relations at the University of Illinois and Champaign-Urbana, 1942-1962
Dissertation describing the segregated nature of Champaign-Urbana and the struggle to integrate various facilities, especially around Campustown. Education Dissertation, UIUC
Jason Patterson, local artist, exhibit stories from News-Gazette
http://news-gazette.com/event/2010-01-25/civil-rights-project-artwork-jason-patterson.html
Tags: Art, History--Civil Rights
Minority Collective Action Against Local Discrimination: A Study of the Negro Community in Champaign-Urbana
Describes the fight to end discriminatory hiring practices at a newly opened J.C. Penney's in downtown Champaign through quantitative and qualitative surveying.
How "Qualified" do WE have to be?
A picket protests the lack of black employees at the downtown Champaign J.C. Penney store in 1961.