Document Description: By September 1993, the Board of Trustees had already approved a free-standing Black cultural center at the Coker Woods site. At the request of the BCC Advisory Board, trustees agreed to hear arguments for re-evaluating the Wilson site at its September 24th meeting, though afterwards, they agreed not to re-vote on the issue. In between these meetings, John Pope, a former member of the Board of Governors, placed this advertisement in the Raleigh News & Observer, urging alumni and state citizens to work against the “separate Black Cultural Center.” John Pope is perhaps best known now as the father of Art Pope, the conservative founder of the John William Pope Foundation and John Locke Foundation.

Date: 9/12/1993
Document Type: Advertisement
Creator: John Pope
Document Collection: Office of Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Paul Hardin Records, 1988-1995
Campus Space:Â The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
Citation: Advertisement Against the BCC in The Raleigh News & Observer, 12 September 1993 in the Office of Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Paul Hardin Records #40025, University Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Document Description: By September 1993, the Board of Trustees had already approved a free-standing Black cultural center at the Coker Woods site. At the request of the BCC Advisory Board, trustees agreed to hear arguments for re-evaluating the Wilson site at its September 24th meeting, though afterwards, they agreed not to re-vote on the issue. In between these meetings, John Pope, a former member of the Board of Governors, placed this advertisement in the Raleigh News & Observer, urging alumni and state citizens to work against the “separate Black Cultural Center.” John Pope is perhaps best known now as the father of Art Pope, the conservative founder of the John William Pope Foundation and John Locke Foundation.
Date: 9/12/1993
Document Type: Advertisement
Creator: John Pope
Document Collection: Office of Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Paul Hardin Records, 1988-1995
Campus Space:Â The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
Citation: Advertisement Against the BCC in The Raleigh News & Observer, 12 September 1993 in the Office of Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Paul Hardin Records #40025, University Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.