Timeline: 1968

Champaign Community School District Unit #4 instituted a desegregation plan for its elementary buildings in part by busing African American children.

July: The North End Health Center is opened at 908 N. 5th Street in Champaign, IL.

Fall: Violence erupted at Centennial High School in Champaign on the first day of school. It was brought on by white resistance to busing of African American students from the “North End.”

Fall: The Special Educational Opportunities Program (SEOP), also known as Project 500 began at the University of Illinois’ Urbana-Champaign campus. The first year it brought 568 Black freshman, and Hispanic and Native American students to the campus.

The League of Women Voters of Champaign County issued a new report, “A Community Report—20 Years Later: The Status of the Negro in Champaign County.”

The Don Moyer Boys Club was founded, and a building was purchased in May of 1969 at 201 E. Park Street in Champaign. It later merged with the Girls Club to become the Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club. The facility was renovated in 1994.