Timeline: 1970
The census recorded 8,549 Black residents in Champaign County.
The Afro-American Studies Commission was established at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The Douglass Center Library was organized in 1970. It was housed in a room in the old Douglass Community Center.
1970–1973: Local activist John Lee Johnson published N.Y.D.D. and Community Advocacy Depot (C.A.D.) Newsletters. Highly infused with Black power rhetoric for social change, the two periodicals were published out of a center in 100-block of North First Street.
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