North First Street Redevelopment Program Research Files

North First Street, Research and Data, Community Development, Community Organizations, Businesses, Higher Education, Oral History, Politics and Activism, Religion, Discrimination

Research report prepared as part of a North First Street Redevelopment Program Research by Annalise Fonza in 2002. Includes transcriptions of interviews with with Lum Rose & Joe Taylor, Allan Penwell and John L. Johnson. Also includes two documents reflecting on the project by Annalise Fonza herself - the summary and the forward files.

Annalise Fonza

Unpublished research reports

2002

pdf

text

Urbana High School Rosemary 1986

Yearbooks, Education, School District 116, High Schools

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Urbana High School

Urbana High School

1986

The State of Black Champaign County, 1984

Research and Data, Science and Technology, Housing, Education, Community Organizations--Urban League of Champaign County

Table of Contents: Introduction – Vernon L. Barkstall; Profile of Key Data – John H. McClendon; The Demography of Black Champaign County – Mary Blackstone; It Seems to Me – Taylor Thomas; Black Female Headed Households and Literacy in Champaign County – Violet Marie Malone; Housing and Land Use in North Champaign – Earl R. Jones; Black and High Tech for Black Champaign County – Paul R. Parker; Education – James D. Anderson; A Black Perspective on Parkland College – Willie A. Nesbitt; Human Services in Champaign County – Robert O. Washington.

John H. McClendon, ed.

Urban League of Champaign County

1984

Vernon L. Barkstall

Document

The Relative Lot Hypothesis: An Empirical Note

Asabere, Paul K., and Peter F. Colwell. “T.” Urban Studies. 22 (1985): 355-357.

North First Street Outdoor Photographs

North First Street

Photographs of North First Street taken in the mid-1980s. Locations photographed include Our Place Barber Shop, Lone Star Lounge, Candy's Lounge, Champaign Cattle Bank Museum, Brown's Cafe, D'Ghanza Beauty Salon, Jackson's Open Pit BBQ and Lounge.

1985

Community Proposal: WBML

Radio

Proposal for an outreach initiative of WBML radio directed at high school age local African-American youth.

ca. 1993

Minority Contractors List

Businesses--Contractors, Economy, Labor and Jobs, Social Services--Urban League

List of African-American contractors in Champaign-Urbana.

Urban League of Champaign County

Urban League Archives

1986

Text

Document

Black Churches

Religion--Churches, University Community--Black Graduate Student Association

Listing of predominantly African-American churches, compiled in the mid-1980s.

Ellistine Anita Booze, Doland Hubbard

UIUC Afro-American Directory

Black Graduate Student Association

1980s

Salem Speaks, May 1988

Media, Religion--Salem Baptist Church

Salem Baptist Church newsletter
Articles Include:

The Pastor's Pen Points: Enlarging the Tent. Rev. Claude E. Shelby Sr.

Special Tribute to Deacon Theotto Bowles

Vacation Bible School

A Visit to Isreal by Timothy Jones

Women's Day 1988

A New Minister at Salem

Salem Baptist Church, Rev. Claude E. Shelby, Sr., Jeanette Goines Osler

May 1988

Rev. Claude E. Shelby, Sr., Jeanette Goines Osler, Timothy Jones

Salem Speaks, 1987

Media, Religion--Salem Baptist Church

Salem Baptist Church newsletter
Articles include:
From the Pastor's Desk by Rev. Claude E. Shelby

Baptist General State Congress of Christian Education by Betty J. Hassell

Pastor Shelby's Sixth Anniversary

Salem Speaks Needs You

Keeping the Dream Alive by R.E Goines III

34th Annual Brotherhood Banquet by Eric Lewis

Youth at Salem by R.E Goines III

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

Salem Baptist Church, Rev. Claude E. Shelby, Sr., Jeanette Goines

1987

Rev. Claude E. Shelby, R.E Goines III, Eric Lewis, Betty J. Hassell