Document Description: John Bradley, Tim Smith, Jimmy Hitchcock, and Malcolm Marshall, four members of the University’s football team, founded the Black Awareness Council (BAC) in July 1992. Members of BAC worked to bring national media attention to the ongoing movement for a free-standing Black cultural center, bringing their campus celebrity status as members of the football team to the movement. BAC’s platform outlines their support of both the BCC movement and the housekeepers movement.

Organization: BCC MovementBlack Awareness Council

Date: 8/1/1992

Document Type: Statement of Purpose

Creator: John Bradley, Tim Smith, Malcolm Marshall, Jimmy Hitchcock

Document Collection: Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History Records, 1984-2013

Campus Space: The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History

Citation: Black Awareness Council Platform in the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History Records #40341, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.