Timeline: 1916

Establishment of Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church. First met at 1110 N. 4th Street at the home of Tolie Eva Nunn.

St. Elmo Brady received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Illinois, the first African American granted this degree in the United States.

William Frank Earnest entered the University of Illinois as an agriculture major and member of the track and field team.

Establishment of the Raymond Scott Band in Champaign, IL.

“Emancipation Celebration Committee. The date of Friday, September 22 was set.” Urbana Courier, September 1, 1916, page 5.

Solomon T. Clanton, President

Edward G. Jackson, Vice President

R. B. Alexander, Secretary

Archie Penney, Treasurer

By 1916 the religious service organizations the Sisters of the Holy Cross and the Pilgrim Knights of the Word were established.