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Jo Jones first made contact with the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated Alpha
Nu Chapter at the University of Illinois on a high school visit. She enrolled at the University of Illinois in 1959…
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Eleanor Saunders Towns eyes were
initially set on Howard University, but an administrative error redirected her
to the University of Illinois in 1961. Towns was a State Champion High…
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Connie Rolison Corbett came to the University of Illinois as a transfer
student in 1963, majoring in medical technology. She came to Illinois because
she felt lonely at Ohio University, where she…
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Carol Easton Lee first went off to
college from the Chicago Public School System to Illinois Wesleyan University in 1962. She visited the University of Illinois for Homecoming freshman year and…
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Born and raised in Chicago, Beverly Effort Biggs applied to Illinois at the encouragement of a high school teacher in 1961. Up until then, her educational environments had been majority - black. She…
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