Franklin Street, the main commercial thoroughfare of Chapel Hill, has been the site of dozens of marches and protests on behalf of racial justice campus movements, beginning with civil rights demonstrations in the early 1960s. When seventeen people were arrested in April 1993 at the conclusion of a two-week long sit-in in South Building for a free-standing Black Cultural Center, students marched down Franklin Street towards the town jail to protest.
Organization: UNC Housekeepers Association, BCC Movement
Space Use: Road
Date Created: 1790
Campus Space: Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History