Beyond Brown: A Yearlong Look at the Brown Decision

History, Education

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Simple Words, Simple Deeds

Education, Racism

Based on interviews in Champaign-Urbana's African-American Community.

From First Paragraph:

Maybe the easiest way to get from the campus of the
University of Illinois to Urbana High School is just to walk
south on Lincoln Avenue to Washington Street and then east
past handsome homes to Race Street, where the large
educational plant stands, its entrance facing Carle Park and
the arch on its western boundary, its athletic fields in the
rear, and its carefully trimmed lawns and evergreens on all
sides. The high school has an older substantial section and a
new wing marked 1955 on a white foundation stone. Inside
the corridors are wide and long, exceptionally long, lined
with hundreds and hundreds of numbered lockers, 1407,
1408, 1409, 1410.

Thomas J. Cottle

Urban Education

1970

Champaign Community Unit School District #4 Demographic Study

Schools, Education, Demographics, Consent Decree

From introduction:

Introduction
This demographic study was developed in response to a
request for proposal (RFP) published by the Champaign
Community Unit School District #4. The deliverables in this
report include:
• Details on methodology, data collection and findings.
• Ten (10) year forecast of enrollment and population within
the district by grade level and by planning area, including
socioeconomic/racial characteristics of students.
• Demographic maps, tables and charts.
Cropper GIS prepared the demographic mapping and analysis.
McKibben Demographic Research prepared the demographic
analysis and enrollment forecasts and acted as lead contact
with the district.

Champaign Unit 4 School District, McKibben Demographics and Cropper GIS

Unpublished report

April 2008

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Unpublished court document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

Community As Curriculum: Youth Community Informatics

Community Informatics, Education

Teachers' Manual. Includes sections on Youth Community Informatics Projects in Champaign-Urbana on pages 37-40.

Graduate School of Library and Information Science

2010

Community Engagement @ Illinois: Unedited Source Material

Campus-Community Engagement, Education, Youth, Environment

Unedited texts Community Engagement @ Illinois: Connecting Research and Service at the University of Illinois. These documents are the unedited submissions that were excerpted for the final published volume, available at: http://eblackcu.net/portal/items/show/705

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Table of contents of Volume:
Chapter Page
Introduction, Noah Lenstra and Abdul Alkalimat vii
Section 1. Historical Context
The University of Illinois Negro Students, Albert R. Lee (1940) 2
Descriptive Inventory of Resources for...Work with Disadvantaged (1967) 5
What Does CAD Mean?, John Lee Johnson (1970) 12
Report on Higher Education Public Responsibilities in the Black Community (1972) 13
The Gap Between University Blacks and Community Blacks, by Glenna Bryant (1976) 15
The Art of Social Change, Julian Rappaport (1998) 18
The Concept and Description of an Exchange Center..., Leonard Heumann (2000) 22
Urban Exchange Center, Troy (Kamau) LaRaviere (2004) 27
Section 2. Contemporary Project, 1. Community
History of Douglass Center, Michael Burns 41
Writing Rhetorical Education through Archival Records and Oral Histories, Vanessa Rouillon 42
Abstract for Ongoing study on campus-community interactions, Melissa Pognon 49
Inclusive Illinois 2010 Impact Report, Office of Equal Opportunity and Access 50
Economic Development Opportunity Program Flyer and Program, Otis Noble 54
Construction Trades Opportunity Program, Final Report, Otis Noble 56
Letter Requesting Participants in Business Certification Workshop, Fred Coleman 57
The Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club Learning Center Redesign, Deven Gibbs 58
Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Planning Committee, Nathaniel Banks 60
Mo' Betta Music Camps, Nathaniel Banks 63
Program for AFRO498 Final Concert at Salem Baptist Church, Willie Summerville 64
Stewarding Excellence Project Team Report, Public Engagement at the University of Illinois 65
Service Learning Opportunities: The Advocacy Model, Nicole Allen 67
$9 Million Grant for Champaign County Secured by Psychology Faculty, Elaine Shpungin 69
C-U Citizen Access, Journalism Department 70
University of Illinois Campus Charitable Fund Drive 72
C-U Volunteer.org, Office of Volunteer Programs 73
Learning in Community (LINC) 74
Diversity and Technology for Engaging Communities website 74
Section 2. Contemporary Projects, 2. Politics and Police
Champaign County Courtwatching Project Highlights, College of Law 76
Transforming Policing Practices, Brian Dolinar, Kerry Pimblott and Regina Pritchett 81
Planners Network, Flyers for Events relating to Kiwane Carrington Case 87
Police Brutality, The State and the Killing of Kiwane Carrington, Amira Davis 88
Ubuntu: Anti-Racism, Sharon Irish 95
Letters to the President Program, Ray Muhammad and Ruby Mendenhall 96
ELSEY: Extending Library Services to Empower Youth, Joe Coyle and Jeanie Austin 97
Section 2. Contemporary Projects, 3. Environment and Health
Citizens, Experts and Local Environmental Knowledge, Ken Salo 100
Champaign, IL, Toxic Tour Map, Ken Salo 103
Organic Gardener Maps Gardens in African-American Community, Kimberlie Kranich 104
Abstract for Capstone Research Abstract: Young Planners Network, Yolanda Richards 105
Farmers Market on Historic North First Street Community Survey Results, Stacy Harwood 105
North First Street Prosperity Garden opening, University of Illinois Extension 107
Sun, Dirt, Rain and Champaign, Jon Weisman, et.al. 108
Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club Environmental Program, Division of Safety and Compliance 110
Section 2. Contemporary Projects, 4. Culture
Revisiting Murals, Animating Neighborhoods, Ryan Griffis, Sharon Irish and Sam Smith 112
Exploring Social and Artistic Elements of African-American Photography, Sydney Stoudmire 114
In Search of Hip-Hop Express, Executive Summary, William M. Patterson 124
Engagement Report, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Sam Smith 125
Speak Cafe' Flyers, Aaron Ammons 127
Section 2. Contemporary Projects, 5. Education
Diversity in Higher Education: The Story of SEOP and ATEP, Ronald Threadgill 129
SOLHOT, Ruth Nicole Brown 139
An eBlackCU intern looks back on her Summer, Dominique Johnson and Patricia Rosario 140
Bruce D. Nesbitt African-American Cultural Center website 143
History of Project 500, Bruce D. Nesbitt African-American Cultural Center 145
Champaign Community Unit School District 4 - School Climate Study, Mark S. Aber, et.al. 146
Announcement for The Great Campus Scoping Study 149
Excerpts from website for Campus Academy 149
Harambee: Pulling Together at Freedom School, Jan-Carter Black 150
An Evaluation of the Odyssey Project, James Kilgore 151
U.R. Movement Focal Point Proposal and Flyer. 2009-2010, Jonathan Hamilton 153
TAP In Leadership Academy, Shameem Rakha, Sally Carter and Chaebong Nam 156
Multicultural Youth Conference, Center for Education in Small Urban Communities 162
The Effects of the SOAR Program..., Caitlyn Smith and Emily Wolfkiel 163
Recreating Booker T. Washington Elementary School as a STEM Academy, Lizanne DeStefano 165
C-U Fab Lab Fosters Creativity in Local Youth, I-STEM Initiative website 166
Project Upward Bound. Summer 2007 Report, Office of Minority Student Affairs (OMSA) 167
Section 2. Contemporary Projects, 6. Technology
Hook 'em with Technology, Keep 'em with Relationships, Kimberlie Kranich/William Patterson 170
A census of public computing in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, Kate Williams 173
Big Broadband (UC2B) Reaching Out to Community Institutions, John Kersh 175
UC2B Below and Above Ground Applications, Mike Smeltzer and Abdul Alkalimat 176
The Engaging and Empowering Youth (E2Y) Project, Chaebong Nam 178
Section 3. Bibliographies
Webliography of African-American Champaign-Urbana, Noah Lenstra, et.al. 184
Guide to African-American Research Resources University of Illinois Archives 196
Index to Community Engagement @ the University of Illinois 207

Multiple authors

November 2010

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Education and Sports

Baseball

Baseball research I, II, III;
This file is split into three folders. This file contains newspaper clippings which are listed by article titles-Plumbers, Monticello Beaten in Twin Bills; Cornbelt Ends Legue Season; Custer, Utley Tie for Cornbelt Bat Title; Ed Hines, 74, Champaign Negro Born A Slave; Among the Colored Folks; Elsa Utley; obituary of James Hines Sr.; Merchants Rap Eagles Again; Frank Gagnon Signed with Urbana Group; Shelby Himes; Colts Entertain Buckley Nine Today; Rantoul Els Nab 8th Win, Royal Gains 2d Place; Eagles, Dexters Top E.I. Honorary Tangle in Tournament Opener Here; Locals Draw Royal Nine For Debut; Urbana League Has 10 Teams; But Local Park Not Apt To Be Ready May 3; EI Stars Defeat Illinois by 12-7; EI All-Stars Whip Illinois by 12-7 Count; Jaycees Draw Up League Schedules; KCs, Eagles Will Tangle at Kenwood; 9-Club E.I. Opens May 1, Chanute In, Royal Out; E.I. Opens 24th Season Sunday; Easter Illinois baseball league; Maroon 9 Loses to Charleston; Eagle Eye Title Clinch at Buckley; Three Knights Named EI All-Stars, Eagles go After Title Clinch Today; Eagles Defeat Tuscola Newman, Nail Title Tie; Eagles Rap Colts for Clear Title; Giff –Flats Clinch EI Title Share; EI Race Ends in Triple Tie for First Time in History; EI League All-Star Nine Named by Courier(Tate, Mrray, Head, Ring, Moore, Crum, Freeman, Christensen, Adkinson), Underdogs Eye Upsets in Tourney Openers; EI Teen-Agers Open ’60 Season Sunday; Three Teams Tie for Title In EI League; Torrid EI Campaign Again Ends In Three Way Tie; Royal at Buckley for Final, Cooke Near Batting Title; S. Hillsman is Charged With Murder; Royal Nails Title Share In EI; Eagles Gain Tie For EI Lead; Ties for EI Title Not New; Westfield picture from newspaper; 3 Eagles on EI Stars Nine, Tourney Begins Today; Eastern Illinois Baseball League Statistics ( Aug. 28, 1966); Title Eagles, Rantoul Live Up To Billing; Eagles, Rantoul in Finale; Rantoul Topples Eagles for Title; Loschen Hurls Shutout, EI Race Still Tight; Eagles in Third Straight EI Win; Action Sunday May Tighten EI Race; Eagles, Rantoul Enter Final Week Tied, Buckley ½ back; Rantoul Tie for EI Title; Rantoul Eagles Win In WI, Championship Sunday; Rantoul, Buckley in EI Showdown; Merchants Forfeit Finale, Royal, Tuscola Post Wins; Krumwiede Wins, Tourney Begins; Paxton Upsets Royal In El, Rantoul Bows, Eagles Win 2; Jackson obituary only hit highlights; obituary for Waddel Jackson; Remember The Champaign Eagles?; picture of Wardell Jackson, John “Snapper” Johnson, Joe Doyle; EI Eagles Gave Blacks a Chance To Play; Rain Interrupts EI Tourney Eagles, Buckley Post Wins; Royal, Rantoul Into Extra Innings; Radmaker Return To EI Expected; Royal, Rantoul, Buckley Win; Paxton Spills Rantoul, Eagles, G-F Win; Rantoul Tally Wins 2nd Tilt, Nets EI Lead, Royal Loses; Rantoul, Royal Both Notch 5-1 Winds, Eye EI Windup; Royal Rips Rantoul 10-1 For Title (?); Royal Outlasts BUckely 17-15, Fro Clear EI Title; establishment of the Wardell Jackson tournament trophy; Fletcher’s 1-Hitter Gives Royal EI Tourney Title; EI Legend Gillespie still gets raves about his bat; picture of Wardell Jackson at annual EI All-Star Game (1975), Wisenborn Holds Giants to 4 hits, Royal Wins; Barnes Club Local Entry in Cornbelt; Old Time Ball Preserved in EI; May 30, 1953…A Day of Glory in EI’s History; Prep Couch has Torrid Bat in EI; Famed Pitcher Satchel Paige, From Curves to Self-Promoting; Paige Pitched in 2 EI Exhibitions; EI Saeson Set To Open on Sunday, Buckley ’56 Champ; Knights and Colts To Host Openers; Eagles’ Magic Number is 4; Eagles Win, Now Within Two Games of EI Title; Buckley Wallops Eagles, 16-11; Buckley Whips Loop Leading Eagles, 16-1; Eagles Grab Clear EI Title; Three EI Hitters Swing .500 Bats (Adkinson); Five Tilts Begin EI Play Sunday; Royal Clinches Title Tie In Day of EL Oddities; All Stars Named (Aug 24, 1960, Meier, Adkinson, Murray, Olden); Eagles, Knights, Tuscola, Royal Win; Eagles, Royal Win EI Semis; Eagles Whip Royal 5-2, for WI Tourney Title; New Hardball League Formed (1936); Remembering Early Days of EI Baseball League; New Champaign Nine Joins EI; Charles Scoby; obituary for Odell Scoby; John Eddie Scoby obituary; John Cleo “Snapper” Johnson, Sr. obituary; picture of Pepsi-Cole’s Jaycee Senior Leagues; Six Lewis Brothers Serve in Army of United States; Vernon Lewis obituary; Eddie Glover’s obituary, Colored Elks; Elks-Legion Play Titular Go Wednesday; Colored boys star as head __ holds legion; Merchants hit at .309 Clip, Elks are 2nd; Home Nine to Top Beating Elks, 7 to 5; Legion-Elks Break Even in 2 games; Flateville is winner over Colored Reds; Ben Hur Nine Whips Giants by 7-4 Score; Giants Beat Ben Hur, Hope Pitches Four-Hit ball for winners; Giants Spank Plumber Nine; Leaders Face Fight to Hold League; Colored Giants Spank Moore’s in Commercial; Standings of local teams in 1934; Annual Picnic Group Watches Wild baseball; Baseball Play Nearing End (1934); Colored Giants Lead Increased in League; Giants Capture 9-5 Win Over Old Timers; Managers Vote to Stop Games After Petition; Giants, Lions Are Defeated In City Loops; County Hardball Loop Opens Second Half of Campaign Sunday (Dock Leedy’s place); Bailey and Himes, News Agency Win Final Games; Colored Infield Visits Here Monday (picture); Two Change on Top; Chicago Giants Trip Champaign All Stars; Season Dates For Hardball Circuit Set; Flynn Name to Commission to Supervise Work; EI Baseball Season Card Is Announced; New Hardball League Formed; Mahomet New League Member; Corn Belt Schedules ( 1936); EI Cornbelt Players Named (1939); Favor Champs in EI League; Cornbelt Lays Final Plans; New Cornbelt Teams Strong; Barne’s Club Local Entry in Cornbelt; Thrasher New Pilot, Men are Young; Doyle, Masters, Wierman Hurl for Irish; Cornbelt League Managers Vote; Shift Seymour to Shortstop for 1940;Cornbelt Ends League Season (1940); Red Sox Top Royal, 7-6 Win Pennant; Custer, Utley for Cornbelt Bat Title; Colts Play Mattoon Team Sunday; Glover’s Club Boasts Hitting Plus Pitching; Tuscola Club Quits Eastern Illinois Loop, Poor Support Reason Given by Bud Wiese; EI Box Scores (1941); Red Sox, Chanute Clash Here Today; Colts, Seymour Battle In EI Feature Today; Colts Defeat Seymour, Move Closer to Title; Colts Favored to Take EI Tournament Title; Thomasboro in Upset Victory Over Colts, 8-6; Red Sox Beat Ludlow, 13-10 In Tournament; Flatville Nine Spanks Seymour in 7-3 Scrap; Flatville is set to Halt EI Leader; Royal Tops Thomasboro in 8 to 1 Tilt; Colts Annex at Hindsboro; North Team Tips South 2-0 In EI All-Star Mound Duel; This opportunity is tailor made, Negro Leagues back in uniform; Texas man works to preserve history of Negro Leagues (Nate Smalls); Former Pitcher still poetry in motion (Ernie Westfield); Karoll-Kaufman Little League (picture); Game Decade Old: Old-Timers Debuted in 1972; Meet Ernie Westfield, Negro Leagues Pitcher ( The Last Word publication); Glory Days of Baseball in C-U; Discussion of area figure rustles me (Rochell Broome, Snapper Johnson, Dick Hyde,); Baseball Hall of Famer Griffth started out here (The Pantagraph); EI bat Chat (picture of Jack Waldron, Ronald Harbaugh, Bob Fruhling, Herb Osterbur, Eddie Glover); Champaign Eagles (picture); All EI Games Washer out, Flatville Spared Loda Test; Eagles Edge Flatville in EI; Jackie Robinson Breaks Baseball’s Color Barrier; The Negro National Baseball League is a hit (picture); You’re never too old to learn; Life after 100, Linda Loses her heart to century old baseball player; Beyond Apple pie, ‘Baseball as America’: Exhibit shows true that is; Sam Lacy, Pioneering Sportswriter, Dies at 99; Easy Does it, White Sox General Manager Williams Learning Silence Sometimes can be Golden (Chicago Sun-Times); James McCurine, played for Giants in Negro League; J McCurine Negro League Slugger; Fleeting Fame, Less than 20 years after the Civil War, Fleetwood Walker opened the door for African American Major-leaguers-only to see it slammed shut (American Legacy); Baseball great ‘Buck’ Leonard dead at age 90; Toni Stone, 75, First Woman to Play Big-league Baseball; Remembering the soul of the game (St. Louis American); Doby Again Follows Robinson; Sam Haitston, 77, First American Black on White Sox, Dies (The New York Times); Piper Davis, 79, Star Infielder and Manager in Negro Leagues; Negro League start Piper Davis; Safe at Home (Ted Radcliffe); Fielder of Dreams: Defensive Wizard Caps storybook career with induction; Josh Gibson scoring for the Homestead Grays in 1942 in “Baseball” (picture); fond recollections (Armando Vazquez and Jim Robinson pictured). Also in this file, PBS The Story of the Game: the Story of America; Sports Illustrated: Black Baseball, National Baseball Hall of Fame archival finding aids and inventories; A Brief History of Baseball; African American History and Culture Periodicals; Claudia G. Utley: A Transmitter of Love, Letter from Cynthia Utley; funeral program from Mr. Elsa Utley; Royal Baseball Team for the Balance of 1943; questions for J.W. Pirtle; Email to Cheryl from Ernest about Doc Leedy, LeRoy Barnes Red Sox-Champions of Corn Belt League 1940 Winners Tournament Playoff list; Eagles Sunday June 12, 1960 picture- EI League Champions; Interviews: Patricia Pickens Kingston, Beverly Scoby, J.W. Pirtle, Ernie Westfield, Wardell Jackson; baseball position; email about restarting the African American History Committee 2006; email from Cheryl to Alicia Lowery about the direction of the baseball research; interview questions; Vern Lewis biography; email to Cheryl from Neil Williams about talking with Neil’s brother; email to Cheryl from Rosalind Lewis about her brother “Snap”; letter to Cheryl from Ernest with list of baseball players names and phone numbers; emails about Pete McFarland; letter to Hattie, Ms. Utley, Patricia, Rosalind, Ms. Wood about baseball research; Birmingham Black Barons, Ernest L. Westfield Sr; list of players and the years and teams they played; an outline for gathering baseball materials and research; 18th and Vine Historic District and the New Negro League Baseball Museum; Silhouettes, 2008 Winter/spring issue; Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Presents: Shades of Greatness; photocopies of trading cards; biographies of Eddie Glover and Wardell Jackson; The Apollo West Carson Players Executive Director Marvin Clayton Present their 23 Annual Black History Celebration 2009 with a Salute to the Negro Baseball League Players, Doris K. Wylie Hoskins Archive Early American museum Champaign County Forest Preserve District Recognizes James H. Clayton and Alfred B. Robinson for their distinguished service and devotion to their community Sunday February 22, 2009. This file contains photographs- Rochelle Brown; team photograph of an African American team; photographs of little league teams without any notes; photograph of team of almost all African American players and two white players; photograph of an African American child in a baseball uniform with two African American adults in uniforms; C-U Kiwanis team; Birmingham Black Barons baseball player; Eagles sitting on the bench watching a game; African American man in an Navy outfit; Le Roy Barnes Red Sox; Douglass Park Girls Softball Team 3rd row- Louie Nash, Dorothy Jordan, Helen Holt, Kathryn Britt, Wilma Clarey, Louis Mason, Elsie Utley , 2nd row- Charlesette Campbell, Margaret Hite, Harriet Wells, Inez Mcnair, Virginia Banks,, 1st Row-Mary Ola Banks, Daisy Holt Jackson; Colts at Buckley fame, July 12, 1942, Tay Thomas, Eddie Glover, Rubavent Utley.

Doris K. Wylie Hoskins Archive for Cultural Diversity

1911- 2008 (bulk dates: 1930-1970)

newspaper clippings, pamphlets, publications, typed written notes, handwritten notes, Photographs

Reactions to Contemporary Activist-Scholars and the “Midwestern Mystique”:
A case study utilizing an evolving methodology in contentious contexts.

Education

Draft

Sascha D. Meinrath

Unpublished Master's thesis

ca. 2000