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Coker Woods Site

The Coker Woods Site was one of two possible sites for the construction of the free-standing Black Cultural Center (BCC), and is the current location of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History. In part because of tension over the Coker Woods site for the BCC, students organized a sit-in in the Chancellor’s office in April 1993, though eventually supporters acquiesced to the location of the BCC in Coker Woods.

Report from Younge Architects for the Sonja Stone Black Cultural Center 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.

Organization: BCC Movement

Space Use: Building Site

Date Created: 1993

Date Ended: 1993

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

Citation: Interview with Ruby Sinreich by Jonathan Tarleton, 24 March 2011, L-0334 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007), Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.