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African American Experience

African American Cultural Center
Department of African American Studies
African-American Cultural Program Publications, 1969-2004
Afro-American Cultural Program Publications include flyers and other promotional materials (1969-87), copies of Drums, the AACP newsletter (1976-77) and Griot, its successor (1978-2004).
Cobb-Roberts, Deirdre. "Interracial Cooperatives at the University of Illinois, 1940- 1960," American Educational History Journal 2002 29: 35-42.
This journal is not available at the University of Illinois, but click on the link for directions on how to place a request for the article through interlibrary loan.
Cobb-Roberts, Deirdre. "Race and Higher Education at the University of Illinois, 1945 to 1955". (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999) ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Order No. 9904419
Cobb, Deirdre. "Segregated Students at the University of Illinois, 1945 to 1955," Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society 1997 24: 46-51.
Note: This journal has been renamed the American Educational History Journal. This journal is not available at the University of Illinois, but click on the link for directions on how to place a request for the article through interlibrary loan.
Feinberg, Walter and Tyack, David. "Black People, Not Student Personnel: The 'Disadvantaged' in Teacher Education". Teachers College Record 1969 71(2): 225-235.
Describes an experimental program in teacher education for black students at the University of Illinois.
Franke, Carrie. "Injustice Sheltered: Race Relations at the University of Illinois and Champaign-Urbana, 1945-1962". (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1990) ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Order No. 9114239
Guide to African-American Sources in the University of Illinois Archives
Mack, Faite R-P. "Educational Opportunity Program Graduates Compared to Educational Opportunity Program Non-Graduates", Journal of Negro Education 1974 43 (1): 39-46.
Studies 502 freshman who entered the University of Illinois Special Education Opportunities Program in 1968.
Merrick, Jeffries. "Project '500': An Excellent Plan Poorly Executed", FOCUS/Midwest 1969 7(45): 8-13.
Spivey, Donald and Jones, Thomas A. "Intercollegiate Athletic Servitude: A Case Study of the Black Illini Student-Athletes, 1931-1967", Social Science Quarterly 1975 55(4): 939- 947.
Williamson, Joy Ann. "'We Hope for Nothing; We Demand Everything': Black Students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1965-1975." (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998) ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Order No. 9904622
Williamson, Joy Ann. "Affirmative Action at University of Illinois: The 1968 Special Educational Opportunities Program," Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society 1998 25(1): 49-54.
Note: This journal has been renamed the American Educational History Journal. This journal is not available at the University of Illinois, but click on the link for directions on how to place a request for the article through interlibrary loan.
Williamson, Joy Ann. "An Oral History of Black Students at the University of Illinois, 1965-1975," Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society 1998 25 (1): 94-100.
Note: This journal has been renamed the American Educational History Journal. This journal is not available at the University of Illinois, but click on the link for directions on how to place a request for the article through interlibrary loan.
Williamson, Joy Ann. "Who is "Black" at the University of Illinois, 1965-1975," Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society 1997 24: 52-56.
Note: This journal has been renamed the American Educational History Journal. This journal is not available at the University of Illinois, but click on the link for directions on how to place a request for the article through interlibrary loan.