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Wilson-Dey Site

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.

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

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.