The Wilson-Dey Site was one of two possible sites for the construction of the free-standing Black Cultural Center (BCC). By placing the BCC on the Wilson-Dey site, BCC supporters believed they could finally destabilize the dominant cultural landscape that had for centuries fixed them outside the boundaries of the institution.
The Wilson-Dey Site was one of two possible sites for the construction of the free-standing Black Cultural Center (BCC). By placing the BCC on the Wilson-Dey site, BCC supporters believed they could finally destabilize the dominant cultural landscape that had for centuries fixed them outside the boundaries of the institution.
Organization: BCC Movement
Space Use: Building Site
Spatial Organizing Approach: Reclamation
Date Created: 1993
Date Ended: 1993
Campus Space: Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
Citation: Interview with Renee Alexander Craft by Charlotte Fryar, 2 March 2017, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007), Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.