Following its opening in the Frank Porter Graham Student Union in 1988, the Black Cultural Center (or The Fishbowl) served as the foremost counter-space for Black students, combining for the first time the social and academic needs of Black students within the space and drawing condemnation from white administrators.
Following its opening in the Frank Porter Graham Student Union in 1988, the Black Cultural Center (or The Fishbowl) served as the foremost counter-space for Black students, combining for the first time the social and academic needs of Black students within the space and drawing condemnation from white administrators.
Organization: BCC Movement
Space Use: Student Life
Spatial Organizing Approach: Creation
Date Created: 1988
Date Ended: 2004
Campus Space: The Fishbowl
Citation: Interview with Michelle Thomas by Charlotte Fryar, 26 December 2017, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007), Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.