Introduction to eBlackCU
eBlackCU is a collaborative portal on African-American history and culture in Champaign-Urbana. Everyone is welcome to use and add to this website. Visit the detailedintroduction to eBlackCU, to learn more about what eBlackCU is, and how it can be used to find information on local African-American history and culture.
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Develop Digital Community Memory
eBlackCU is developing a manual on best practices for digital community history projects that can be used anywhere. Visit the manualfor more information.
Featured Item
Articles on the "Heavenly Seven," a grass-roots African-American Men's Group
Group active since ca. 2007. Articles from News-Gazette and Daily Illini.
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Research guide
This research guide contains pointers to the main collections of publicly accessible information on local African-American history, found in libraries, archives, museums and media outlets. Last updated March 14, 2010.
eBlackCU is a program administered out of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Contact project director Noah Lenstra at nlenstr2@illinois.edu with questions on the project. This project is funded by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Public Engagement at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.