Fourth Monitoring Report: Education Equity Program

Unit 4 School District, Champaign, Consent Decree

Fourth Report Submitted as part of the Federal Court mandated Consent Decree to monitor racism in the Champaign Unit 4 School District.

Robert Peterkin, James Lucey and William Trent

Unpublished court document

April 2007

Affirmative Action at University of Illinois: The 1968 Special Educational Opportunities Program

Teacher Education, University of Illinois, SEOP

First Paragraph: In the spirit of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Higher Education Act of 1965, the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) initiated the Special Educational Opportunities Program (SEOP), a program to recruit
more African American students to the UIUC campus. The SEOP will be the focus of this piece. The objectives are
twofold. First, I will discuss the implementation and nature of SEOP including recruitment, admission requirements,
initial academic achievement, and graduation rates. Next, I will illustrate the impact this first substantial number of
Black students left on the UIUC campus both socially and academically. The first group of SEOP students will be the
focus though later students will be discussed tangentially.

Joy Ann Williamson

Volume 25, Number 1

Midwest History of Education Journal

1998

Martin Luther King Community Celebration Culminating Event, 2011

MLK, Youth, Education, Stepping

Video of Martin Luther King Community Celebration Culminating Event, 2011: The Beloved Community, held January 22, 2011 at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

Introduction to Essay Contest

Reading of Essay Contest winners

Franklin Middle School Steppers

Youth from Garden Hills and B.T.W. Elementary Schools sing "We Are the World"

Noah Lenstra

22 January 2011

Memories of the African-American Experience in Champaign-Urbana

Oral History, Baseball, Chanute, Centennial High School, Segregation, Racism

Bernice Harrington, Ruth Latham and Ernie Westfield share their memories of growing up in Champaign County at Garden Hills Elementary on January 21, 2011.

Video part 1

Video part 2

Noah Lenstra

21 January 2011

Khair Ali Oral History

Oral History, Boxing, Islam, North End, Douglass Center, Music

Khair Ali Oral History on moving to Champaign, boxing and converting to Islam. Ivon Ridgeway sat in for in interview. Interview conducted by Noah Lenstra

Khair Ali video part 1

Khair Ali video part 2

Noah Lenstra

October 2010

Remembering the Struggle video

Civil Rights, Oral History

This video features short clippings of Rev. Ben E. Cox, Sr., Judy Richardson, Nate Dixon, John Lee Johnson, Dianne Pinderhughes, Mary Alexander, and Callie Fitzgerald discuss their participation in Civil Rights and activism to forward the cause of the black community, both in Champaign-Urbana and across the nation.

Click here to view video.

University of Illinois

1996

1935 Negro History Week Celebrations in Champaign-Urbana

ACCESS Initiative Invitation

Mental Health, Social Services

Flyer for January 31, 2011, event for religious based institutions.

ACCESS Initiative

January 2011

Champaign-Urbana Public Health District Joins Nationwide Response to AIDS Crisis Among African Americans

AIDS, Public Health

Champaign-Urbana Public Health District Celebrates National Black HIV /
AIDS Awareness Day with Special Testing Clinics

Press Releases from C-U Public Health District

C-U Public Health District

5 February 2008

UIUC Champaign/Urbana Area Revitalization Project: A discussion of why Champaign/Urbana
lacks a Community based revitalization program

Housing, University-Community Engagement

Powerpoint Presentation for Urban Planning course. Ethnography of the University Course. Features summary of ESLARP and similar projects in the Champaign-Urbana area.

Mike Olson, Emily Smith, Emily Taylor, Jim Webb

ca. 2008