Timeline: 1995
The senior citizens of the Douglass Center Annex established the Champaign County African American History Committee. The committee was dictated to the preservation and dissemination of the county’s African American history through collection and exhibits.
Through The Years Newsletter was published by the Champaign County African American History Committee and the Museum of the Grand Prairie (formerly the Early American Museum). The newsletter included articles and photographs about African American history in Champaign-Urbana.
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