Through The Years Newsletters

The Champaign County African American History Committee was a volunteer group sponsored by the Museum of the Grand Prairie (then known as the Early American Museum) and the Champaign Park District. Beginning in 1995, the committee published a newsletter, entitled Through the Years. The committee's aim was to chronicle and distribute the African-American history and heritage of Champaign County, Illinois. The committe published its final issue in 2002.

Through the Years was resurected in 2006 by the African American Network at the Early American Museum. A single issue was published about baseball. In 2007, a second baseball issue was published. 

No additional issues were ever developed. 

Digital copies of "Through the Years" issues are available here. Taken from hardcopies in the Museum's Doris Hoskins Archive, these documents help preserve and share the important work the committee set in motion. That work is equally relavent and timely today as it was in 1995.