A Housing Gap Model for Champaign-Urbana, Illinois

Housing, Inequalities, Public Housing

This research proposes a basic housing gap model that can assist in the decision making process
related housing construction and rehabilitation programs. This model is then applied to the
community. of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, to examine how public funding may affect the
housing market and if current public housing development projects will ultimately address the
needs of area residents. The primary focus is on housing and residents who are below 30% of the
area median family income (MFI).

Joshua Alexander Runhaar

Masters of Landscape Architecture Paper

2005

Gardenia Club folder

Women's Groups

Photograph by George H. Smith, 117 W. Birch, Champaign, IL Phone: 8912 or 8548

George H. Smith

unknown

Les Femmes folder

Social Groups, Women's Groups

Included in image are: Back row - Helen (Holt) Bracy, Myrtle Pickens, Alice (Williams) Bishop, Icelean Clark, Sylvia Williams, Charlesetta Campbell, Frances Moreland, Ruthie DeShong, Theresa Simpson; Second Row - Pauline Johnson, Margaret Hite, Ruth Fonville, Marion Jones, Jean Davis, Louise Hite, Nellie Banks, Elease Milton, Letha Carter; First Row - Louise Abernathy, Kathryn Humphrey, Gertie Harmon, Olive Foster, Daisy Jackson, Betty Roberts, Rosie Pealer, Mary Ola Nash Banks

unknown

1945

Who's This Man and What is he All About

Migration, Civil Rights, Music, Boxing, Douglas Center, Nation of Islam

Auto-biography of Khair Ali (Freddie Davis/Fred Davis) documenting his migration to Champaign in the 1950s, discrimination, his boxing career, his conversion to the Nation of Islam, his musical career and the cultural life of African-Americans in Champaign-Urbana. Inculdes photographs.

Khair Ali (Freddie Davis)

Black Power on Campus: The University of Illinois, 1965-75

Black Power, Black Studies, University of Illinois, Black Experience on Campus

From Introduction: "The story of a Black student movement and higher educational reform
is reconstructed by examining the in-between layers, the layers
between the national level and the local level, between reform initiatives
and the actual reforms. Identifying Black student demands and tactics as
an outgrowth of Black Power is not surprising, but how did popular Black
power rhetoric filter its way to the University of Illinois? How did Black
students appropriate Black Power ideology and mold it to fit their purposes?
How did Black students then transform their understanding of
Black power theory into practice? Some of the Black student-initiated
reforms were co-opted by the university, some were squashed, and others
were implemented as students envisioned. Some of the administrator-
initiated reforms were influenced by Black students. So how did a
reform initiative become campus policy? How did this forced negotiation
between two groups with different kinds of power color the outcome of
certain campus reforms? This examination of these layers reveals how
institutional change came to pass and demonstrates the important place
of Black Power in the history of higher education."

Joy Ann Williamson

University of Illinois Press

2003

Descriptive Inventory of Resources for the Ecology
of Mental Health and Work With the Disadvantaged

Campus-Community Initiatives, University of Illinois, Poverty

In 1965, a faculty-student group discussing problems
in Mississippi and Champaign-Urbana at the University
YMCA noted the lack of a list of the University of
Illinois' resources and projects to benefit the disadvantaged.
Profs. Demitri Shimkin and Maynard Brichford
sought to remedy this lack by exploratory work in the
spring of 1966 and through initial faculty contacts by
research assistants Miss Catherine Salemi and Mr.
Dominic Candeloro in the summer and fall of 1966. These
activities auickly converged with strong interests of
the director and staff of the Illinois Department of
Mental Health in the ecological approach to mental
health and information on university resources. In
January 1967, a Department grant to the Center for
Human Ecology provided funds to complete an inventory
of university resources and projects as part of the
program development for research and training in the
ecology of mental health. As a permanent central
depository of university documentary material, the
University Archives had the experience to complete
a systematic listing of personnel, facilities and
activities available for consultative purposes.
A descriptive inventory compiled in five months has
many limitations. Some projects have been overlooked.
Others may have been imperfectly understood. We have
attempted to obtain sufficient information, standardize
the format, achieve reasonable uniformity and intelligibility
in the narrative descriptions, check for accuracy
with our informants, provide suitable indexes and print
the results. It is important that many people know
now what the University is doing in these areas.
In a technological society, universities sometimes
reflect their environment by over publicizing the
search for new knowledge and inventions. New programs,
new mechanical devices and new specialists are given
priority. This emphasis can become so heavy as to
support a suspicion that the search is more of a
flight from failure than the pursuit of excellence.
Broad areas in the social sciences and the humanities
have been islands of ignorance bypassed in our haste
to secure material comforts and protect a political
or economic position. The past decade has brought
increased recognition that our social structure has
exciting research and service frontiers in areas that
have been studied for centuries. The challenges of
education, mental health and the culturally disadvantaged
are as old as mankind.

NOTE: Left-part of page cut-off in first 30 pages.

Maynard Brichford

University of Illinois - privately published

July 1967

The Black Women in the Middle West Project: A Comprehensive Resource Guide, Illinois and Indiana: Historical Essays, Oral Histories, Biographical Profiles and Document Collections

African-American Women, Local History, History Workshops

The goal of the Black Women in the Middle West
Project was to collect and preserve photographs and
other documents that record the historical experiences
and accomplishments of Black women and their organizations
throughout Illinois and Indiana. In the absence
of such a "paper" record, it has been impossible to write
full and adequate histories of Black women or to incorporate
their stories into standard American history textbooks.
Alta Jett, the project's Richmond, Indiana
coordinator, summed up the project's purpose well when
she said: "If you want the history of a white man, you go
to the library. If you want the history of black women,
you go to the attics, the closets, and the basements."
Heeding Jett's advice, this is precisely what the
project attempted to do-to reach into attics, closets, and
basements where the records of Black women's lives have
for too long been hidden. To do this, however, required
cooperation between three groups that have seldom coordinated
their efforts-historians, archivists, and community
people from all walks of life. The Project
Director, Darlene Clark Hine, and the Co-Director for
Administration, Patrick Kay Bidelman, provided overall
guidance for the project working out of the Department
of History at Purdue University. Archivists, acting on
behalf of their respective institutions, served as the project's
instructors and expert advisers. The community
people, mostly but not exclusively Black women, formed
the grassroots base of the collecting organization that
the project put into place.

The Champaign-Urbana workshop/conference was held 19 May 1984. Local women featured in volume include Iva F. Matthews, Sarah A.P. Scott, Odelia Wesley, Carrie Luetta Banks (nee Pope), Luvata Bowles, Erma Bridgewater (nee Scott), Jessie Britt, Mattie Estelle Burch, Evelyn Burnett-Underwood, Larine Cowan, Lucy J. Gray (nee Blake), Ruth Beatrice Woodruff Hines, Doris Keanea Hoskins (nee Baker), Jessie Kent (nee Wilson), Carrie Nelson, Tishan Smith (nee Edwards), Ida Elaine Copeland (nee Johnson), JoAnn Armistead-Hodges and organizations, Anna Tutt Honey's Club, Champaign-Urbana Sororities, Order of Eastern Star.

Darlene Clark Hine, Patrick Kay Bidelman, Shirley M. Herd

Indiana Historical Bureau, Purdue Research Foundation

1986

Vegetable View North First Street, News Gazette clipping

Urban Gardens, Gardening, North First Street

Photo on the unveiling of the North First Street Business Association/Farmer's Market Prosperity Garden, located north of the Police Station. Photo includes: Kina Lemons, Evan Blondell and Janet Broughton.

Heather Colt

News-Gazette

6 August 2010

Walter Young Photo Album

African-Americans, Early 20th Century History

Photo album from the Early American Museum. Contains photo documentation of African-American life in the early twentieth century.

Walter Young and Family

Early 20th Century

Project 500 Binder

Black Experience on Campus, Campus-Community Relations

Binder on Project 500 and broader movement of make the University of Illinois more accessible for local African-Americans, especially in cultural programming. Contains archival documents, correspondence, photographs and more.

Unknown

ca. late 1960s