UC2B Round 2 Application Materials

Big Broadband, University-Community Relations, Parkland College

Materials from the Round 2 Application for the UC2B Big Broadband Federal Grant.

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Multiple

ca. February/March 2010

Articles and Files on the Douglass Center

Douglass Center, Douglass Community Center, Douglass Branch, Douglass Branch Library, Douglass Annex, Douglass Park, Douglas Center

Features, especially, coverage on the construction of the new Douglass Center, and surrounding controversy, during the mid-1970s.

1930-1976

Michael Burns

Champaign 150th Anniversary Photographs on African-American Life and Culture in the City of Champaign

church, parade, police, community life

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Eunice Rivers Collection

Photographs, Local History

Digitized in 2009. Please add more information about these photographs by contacting us!

Eunice Rivers

20th Century

UC2B Policy Committee Meeting Video - featuring Ministers of North Champaign-Urbana

UC2B, activism, big broadband, religious community, churches, Bethel, Metanoia, New Hope

Revs. Larry Lewis, Dr. Eugene Barnes and Charles O. Nash, as well as others in the community, present their letter to the UC2B policy committee, at a February 2011 meeting. This letter, which was written by the pastors, and signed by 15 pastors in the UC2B target area, sought to press UC2B to provide direct community benefits through its program through a rebate program to go through the churches.

Community Engagement Course, GSLIS

February 2011

Documentation from Angela Rivers visit to the University of Illinois

Mural, Black Arts Movement, Mapping, Cartography, Local History, Oral History, Rivers Family

See http://eblackcu.net/mural/ for more information on this project.

Angela Rivers, Community Informatics Initiative

October 2009

Lincoln Trails Community Organization Directory

Community Organizations

Introduction: This directory was created and maintained by member libraries of the Lincoln Trails Library
System—especially Champaign Public Library, Marshall Public Library and Charleston Public Library –
between the late 1990s and early 2000s. Its purpose was to help reference staff and patrons find up-to-date
information on community organizations in the communities in which the libraries were located.
As the local CyberInfrastructure was developed, and similar databases and directories were supported by,
among others, the Champaign County Mental Health Center, the need for this database waned and staff time
allocated to maintaining the database shifted elsewhere.
The present volume preserves a snap-shot of the database as of Fall 2009 – and includes not only entries for
community organizations at that time period, but also entries for various community organizations that have
existed in East-Central Illinois between approximately 1995 and 2010. Although it is not comprehensive, it can
serve as a valuable tool to discover the history of community organization, not-for-profits and social service
agencies.
Organization: The directory is organized in alphabetical order by the first letter of the organization. In many
cases organizations have various alternate names, meaning that redundant entries appear in this directory. Thus
“American Red Cross - Illini Prairie Chapter” is found both in the “A’s” section and in the “R’s” section under
“Red Cross.” A full-text searchable version of this directory is maintained on the Champaign County Historical
Archives’ server for additional access points.
Structure of entries: Not all entries are complete. For the most complete entries there will be lines for, in this
order, “Name,” “Alternative Names,” “Description,” “Address,” “Phone,” “Mailing Address,” “Hours,”
“Contact,” “Subjects,” “Services Available,” “Affiliation,” “Eligibility,” and “URL.”

Noah Lenstra

Lincoln Trails Library System

July 2010

Article on struggle to desegregate Champaign schools in 1870s

Schools, Education, Civil Rights

From the "Illinois Writer's Project" papers

Vivian Harsh Archives and Special Collections, Chicago Public Library

1870s

Brian Dolinar

Slides for a presentation on the History of the Park Street Mural (Fifth and Park Street, Champaign)

Murals, Black Arts Movement, CETA, youth

Presentation made in October 2009.

Angela Rivers

October 2009 (1978)

English Brothers Files - Douglass Center Construction

Douglass Center, Archival Records, Black Power, Construction, Urban Renewal, Robert Toalson, Champaign Park District

Files of the English Brothers, a local construction firm, regarding the construction of the new Douglass Center in the 1970s.

English Brothers

unpublished records

ca. 1975

Michael Burns, PhD student, Writing Studies, UIUC