Academic Freedom and Free Speech at U of I
The Broyles’ Bills
Clabaugh Act (1947)
The Leo Koch Case
The Fight for Freedom of Speech and Expression in the 1960s
Student Life during the Cold War Era
The GI Bill and the U of I
Sex, Censorship, and the College Scene
Conservatives on Campus
The Black Athlete at the U of I
Women’s Athletics at the University of Illinois
The Struggle for Integration in the 1940s and 50s
Affirmative Action at the University of Illinois
Project 500
Second Wave Feminism on Campus
Gay Rights on Campus
Latina/o Students at U of I
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at U of I
U of I students and the draft
1967 Protest-Sit-In against DOW Chemical
Publication of “Walrus”
October 15, 1969 Moratorium
March 1970 Rally Against GE
March Riots (1970)
May Student Strike (1970)
The Rise and Fall of President George D. Stoddard
The U of I and the Defense Department
Surveillance, Discipline and the University of Illinois
Although the University of Illinois enrolled African American students since the early 1880s, black students had to struggle to achieve an equitable campus experience. Black students were not allowed to live on campus until 1945, were not allowed to eat on campus or at nearby restaurants into the 1960s, and were often refused service by Campustown and Champaign-Urbana merchants. In the post-World War II era students and liberals renewed the pressure to end discriminatory practices in and around the University. However, the atmosphere of Cold War politics and persistent racism made gains for progressive forces difficult.
University of Illinois Sources:
Housing Review Committee File, 1962-71 (RS 4/6/17)
Student and Faculty Organization Constitutions and Registration Cards, 1909-
(RS 41/2/41): Includes information on CORE, the NAACP and other Civil Rights organizations
Student Organizations Publications, 1871- (RS 41/6/840): Includes information on the Student Community Interracial Committee, CORE, NAACP and others.
Association of American Law Schools Correspondence, 1942-43, 1947-57, 1960-67
(RS: 14/1/9): Box 1 includes information on the Committee on Racial Discrimination.
Wayne A. Johnston Papers, 1945-1967 (RS: 1/20/3): Includes information on racial discrimination on campus.
Panhellenic Files, 1927-1970 (RS: 41/2/63)
Student Personnel & Dean of Women's subject file (RS: 41/3/1): Box 4 includes information on “Colored Women” at the U of I
Harry M. Tiebout Papers, 1941-82 (RS: 15/16/21): Includes information on Tiebout's participation civil rights organizations in the 1950s and 60s.
Jean Knapp, “The University of Illinois and Its Negroes,” The Green Caldron (Apr. 12, 1946) (RS: 15/7/811): Box 2
Cathie Huntoon, “The University of Illinois and the Drive for Negro Equality, 1945-1951” (RS 35/3/18): Paper for History 461
James H. Stern, Jr., “The Fraternity’s Right to Discriminate,” The Green Caldron (April 1958) (RS: 15/7/811): Box 2
Albert C. Spurlock Papers, 1936-1945; 1994; 2001; 2005 (RS 41/20/137): Includes an oral history with Spurlock, a black track athlete at the U of I.
Archives Alumni Oral History Project Files, 2000- (RS 35/3/49): Includes an interview with Erma Bridgewater, class of 1937.
Deirdre Lynn Cobb, “Jim Crow Room & Board: The Experiences of African American Students at UIUC 1945-1955, Thesis (M.A.), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997. Reference file at ARC.
Deirdre Lynn Cobb, “Race and Higher Education at the University of Illinois, 1945 to 1955,” Thesis (Ph. D.), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998.
Carrie Franke, “Injustice Sheltered: Race Relations at the University of Illinois and Champaign-Urbana, 1945-1962”, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, 1990.
Daily Illini, 1874- (Microform in Newspaper Library)
Bibliography:
“University of Illinois Action Group Fights Racial Discrimination on Campus and Off,” Negro Digest (April 1951): 81-83.
Kenneth Clark, The Negro Student at Integrated Colleges (New York: 1963).
Deidre Cobb, “Segregated Students at the University of Illinois, 1945 to 1955,” Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society 24 (1997): 46-51.
Deidre Cobb-Roberts, “Interracial Cooperatives at the University of Illinois, 1940-1960,” American Educational History Journal 29 (2002): 35-42.
Alfred McClung Lee, Fraternities Without Brotherhood: A Study of Prejudice on the American Campus (Boston: 1955).
