Facebook.com - American Legion Post #559

Military, Community Organizations

This is a hyperlink to a website documenting some aspect of the African-American experience in Champaign-Urbana. Copy-and-paste the below link into your browser to open the site. If the link does not work please contact us or try visiting the Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/.

Tuskegee Airmen Digital Exhibit

History, Military

This is a hyperlink to a website documenting some aspect of the African-American experience in Champaign-Urbana. Copy-and-paste the below link into your browser to open the site. If the link does not work please contact us or try visiting the Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/.

Local African-American Memories of World War II

Military, Memory

Features, among other content, stories on local African-American servicemen during World War II as well as memories of Chanute Air Force Base and the African-American Experience in Rantoul.

Links:
http://will.illinois.edu/WWII/stories/C232/ Rantoul's 99th Pursuit Squadron: Tuskegee Airmen

http://will.illinois.edu/WWII/story/eunice-gingrey/ Story of a widow of a Tuskegee Airmen

http://will.illinois.edu/WWII/stories/iris-lundin-champaign/ Story of a nurse who advocated for African-American servicemen

http://will.illinois.edu/WWII/stories/university-of-illinois-wwii-veterans-presentation/ WWII Veterans' Presentation

http://will.illinois.edu/WWII/stories/joseph-smith/ Memories of Joseph Smith of Champaign

Illinois Public Media

http://will.illinois.edu/WWII/stories/category/Web/P42/

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RELIGIOUS ATTITUDES
AND KNOWLEDGE OF 50 AWOL AIRMEN AND
A MATCHED GROUP OF 50 NON-AWOL AIRMEN

The Religious Life

This is a thesis about the comparitive study sbout religion between 50 awol airmen and 50 non-awol airmen. It includes an introduction, tables of experiment, appendix, and a lot of research.

WILLIAM BASIL STROYEN

UIUC Master's Thesis

1953