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Stories on re-development of Eads Street Lots to fund B.T.W.; New Computer Labs in Douglas Library; and retirement of Les Stratton

Introduction
While there was no mention of African-Americans in the enabling legislation for the establishment of the Illinois Industrial University (now University of Illinois), as Dr. Winton Solberg stated in his history of the University, "in…

CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, APPROXIMATELY one and a half hours south of Chicago and located in central Illinois, remained a predominantly rural area surrounded by smaller towns and dominated by independent farming until the mid-twentieth century. Though…

Beak, Joel Ralph. "The Employability of the Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, Negro." MA Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1964.

Bial, Raymond. In All My Years: Portraits of Older Blacks in Champaign-Urbana. Champaign, IL: Champaign…

These are clippings from the News Gazette about building being established in the Champaign community such as the Garden Hills project and the Salvation Army's Shelter. It goes into detail about how they were helping the community or how the…

Stack gives an in-depth look into the culture of blacks. She explains the roles of family members and the way they differ from other cultures.

Shulenburger gives his thesis on the consequences of excluding blacks from the academic employment at the U of I.

Meier's proposal to enlarge the number of African-Americans on campus. This includes employment and students.

This source is a pdf of the 2010-2011 Annual Action Plan of the 2010-2014 Consolidated Plan, a plan of the City of Champaign to meet affordable housing and community developing needs in the Champaign community. It consists most basically of an…