Timeline: 1910
The census recorded 876 Black residents in Champaign County.
Establishment of the Baraca Philathea Lyceum at Bethel A.M.E. Church. The Bethel Lyceum was a non-denominational venue where students and the public practiced public discourse through debates, reading, lectures, musical performances, and communal interactions within the first half of the 20th century.
February 7–8: The Urbana Lodge of the (white) Elks put on a Black Face performance and Minstrel Show. Several men participating in the program would later become members of the Champaign County Ku Klux Klan.
January 10: Jacob Earnest died and is buried in Lost Grove Cemetery in Homer, IL.
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