Timeline: 1928
October 8: The establishment of The Domestic Friendship Club at Bethel A.M.E. Church to promote jobs and care for its sick members by service and finance.
Homer L. Chavis and Mrs. Gertrude Chavis are listed in the Champaign-Urbana Directory at 508 E. Green as operating a cleaning and pressing business. Eventually this business would be established as Royal Cleaners and Laundry, one of the few Black-owned businesses and longest sustaining businesses on the University of Illinois campus, listed in the 1974 Minority Business Directory issued by the Urban League.
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