Timeline: 1906
Maudelle Tanner Bousfield Brown was the first African American woman graduate of the University of Illinois with degrees in astronomy and mathematics. She graduated with honors and was the first African American principal in Chicago Public Schools.
Joseph Lee opens a grocery at 27 1/2 Hickory Street in Champaign.
By 1906 the Masonic affiliates Queen of Sheba Lodge, Raising Star Lodge #14, and Knights of Temple – Coeur DeLeon Commandery #15 had been established in Champaign, IL.
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