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24 Hour Slave Narrative Readings

Document Description: In October 2015, the Real Silent Sam Coalition held a continuous reading of ...
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A Collective Response to Anti-Blackness

Document Description: In November 2015, a coalition of student organizations, including members of the Real ...
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Ashley Davis on foodworkers’ funding the strike

Excerpt Description: Ashley Davis explains that foodworkers and their supporters created the soul food cafeteria ...
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Ashley Davis on the importance of UNC-Chapel Hill for social movements across North Carolina

Excerpt Description: Ashley Davis states the importance of UNC-Chapel Hill in movement-making across North Carolina ...
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Ashley Davis on the reaction of white students to integration

Excerpt Description: Ashley Davis describes how white students reacted to the demonstrations of Black Power ...
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Ashley Davis on the soul food cafeteria in Manning Hall

Excerpt Description: Ashley Davis describes the creation of the alternative soul food cafeteria set up ...
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BCC Supporters Give Hardin Ultimatum

Document Description: On September 3, 1992, an estimated 400 supporters for a free-standing Black Cultural ...
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Black Awareness Council Platform

Document Description: John Bradley, Tim Smith, Jimmy Hitchcock, and Malcolm Marshall, four members of the ...
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Black Cultural Center Location Update for Campus Profile

Document Description: In this report from UNC STV's campus news program, Campus Profile, interviews with ...
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Black Freedom Monument on McCorkle Place

Document Description: These notes, written by Yonni Chapman, describe an imagined Black freedom monument, which ...
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Black Ink Report on the Black Cultural Center – A Dream Deferred

Document Description: Six years after the idea of a Black cultural center had been first been ...
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Black Ink Report on the Black/South Campus – White/North Campus Residency Cycle

Document Description: In 1990, Black Ink reported on the housing pattern in which a majority of Black ...
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Black Monday Rally

Document Description: During the second Foodworkers' Strike in December 1969, Black students once again held ...
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Black Student Movement Demands, 1968

Document Description: On December 11, 1968, the Black Student Movement presented Chancellor Carlyle Sitterson with ...
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Black Student Movement Demands, 1973

Document Description: In 1973, the Black Student Movement issued a series of demands to the ...
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Black Student Movement Demands, 1979

Document Description: In 1979, the Black Student Movement issued another list of demands to the ...
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Black Student Movement Demands, 1997

Document Description: In November 1997, the Black Student Movement issued a new list of twenty-two ...
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Black Student Movement Statement of Purpose

Document Description: Preston Dobbins created the Black Student Movement (BSM) on November 7, 1967 by ...
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Black Students Protest Sonja Stone Tenure Decision

Document Description: In 1979, Dr. Sonja Stone, head of the curriculum in African-American studies, was ...
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Blanche Brown on archival records for Saunders Hall movement

Excerpt Description: Blanche Brown details her discovery of an archival record that stated William Saunders's ...
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Blanche Brown on performance art as engagement tactic

Excerpt Description: Blanche Brown explains how the Real Silent Sam Coalition used performance tactics to ...
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Blanche Brown on the history of student engagement in campus activism

Excerpt Description: Blanche Brown chronicles how student engagement with justice movements has changed over time ...
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Blanche Brown on the institutional role of the University for its students

Excerpt Description: Blanche Brown describes how the University's founding as an institution for North Carolina's ...
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Blanche Brown on the reincarnations of student organizations around racialized geographies

Excerpt Description: Blanche Brown explains the various reincarnations of student groups that have organized around ...
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Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes, 1920

Document Description: In the early spring semester of 2015, Blanche Brown, a member of the ...
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Call for Racial Justice at the University of North Carolina, to Chancellor Moeser and the University Community

Document Description: Created by the Freedom Legacy Project, this petition argued for Chancellor James Moeser and ...
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Campaign for Historical Accuracy and Truth Notes on Beliefs and Goals

Document Description: These notes, taken by Yonni Chapman, outline the statement of beliefs and goals ...
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Campaign for Historical Accuracy and Truth Statement of Purpose

Document Description: This statement of purpose for the Campaign for Historical Accuracy and Truth was ...
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Can You Hear Us Now?

Document Description: In August 2011, a new organization formed comprised of both students and Chapel ...
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Carol McDonald on cycles of activism and change

Excerpt Description: Carol McDonald recounts the cycles of activism that occur and the frustrations that ...
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Carol McDonald on her arrest in South Building

Excerpt Description: Carol McDonald describes the series of events that eventually led to her arrest ...
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Carol McDonald on speak-outs as a consciousness-raising tactic

Excerpt Description: Carol McDonald describes how speak-outs were used as a consciousness-raising tactic for the ...
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Carol McDonald on the Black cultural center benefiting all people

Excerpt Description: Carol McDonald argues that the Black cultural center movement was about creating a ...
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Carol McDonald on the historical legacies of Black workers rights

Excerpt Description: Carol McDonald describes how the connections between the BCC movement and the housekeepers' ...
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Carol McDonald on the importance of self-empowerment for young people

Excerpt Description: Carol McDonald explains the importance for young people to see themselves as powerful ...
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Carol McDonald on the legacy of social justice campus movements

Excerpt Description: Carol McDonald explains how members of the BCC movement placed themselves within the ...
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Carol McDonald on the long struggle for justice and caring for yourself

Excerpt Description: Carol McDonald explains that the movement for justice is long and continual, which ...
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Cary Boshamer to Chancellor Sitterson Telegram

Document Description: Cary Boshamer, a significant donor to the University, wrote to Chancellor J. Carlyle ...
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Chancellor Sitterson Response to Black Student Movement Demands

Document Description: Chancellor Sitterson responded to the Black Student Movement's 1968 demands with this nineteen-page ...
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Chris Baumann on generational movements made through small acts

Excerpt Description: Chris Baumann explains that justice movements at the University are built by each ...
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Chris Baumann on reparations for Black citizens

Excerpt Description: Chris Baumann describes how the UNC Housekeepers' Association made their reparations case for ...
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Chris Baumann on student power and worker power

Excerpt Description: Chris Baumann reveals that students and workers have and can collectively leverage power ...
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Chris Baumann on students’ supportive role in workers’ movements

Excerpt Description: Chris Baumann describes his role as a white student in the housekeepers' movement ...
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Chris Baumann on the continuing problems facing low-wage workers

Excerpt Description: Chris Baumann explains the struggle housekeepers faced to get the University to meet ...
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Chris Faison on creating inclusive spaces across the campus

Excerpt Description: Chris Faison imagines a campus that shifts all of its building spaces to ...
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Chris Faison on the evolution of the Black Student Movement

Excerpt Description: Chris Faison describes how the political engagement of the Black Student Movement has ...
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Chris Faison on the possibilities for the Stone Center

Excerpt Description: Chris Faison details possibilities for growth and change for the space of the ...
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Coalition for Economic Justice Protest Signs at the President’s House

Document Description: Following a series of protests from the UNC Housekeepers' Association and the student-led ...
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Common Myths About the Black Cultural Center Flyer

Document Description: Though a Black cultural center already existed on the campus, myths about the ...
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Continuing Student Protest Report in Black Ink

Document Description: Black Ink reported on the continued protests from the Black cultural center movement, ...
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Counter Cartographies Collective #KickOutTheKKK Map

Document Description: Counter Cartographies Collective made this map in support of the #KickOutTheKKK rally held at ...
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Covering Up Saunders Hall Sign

Document Description: In May 2015, the Board of Trustees voted to remove William Saunders’ name ...
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Daily Tar Heel Report on Campus Housing Segregation

Document Description: The Daily Tar Heel reported in 1991 on the housing pattern in which ...
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Decoration of Saunders Hall by Students Seeking Historical Truth

Document Description: The first student organization that formed around issues relating to the University’s history ...
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Deposition on Black Student Housing on South Campus

Document Description: Through the 1970s and 1980s, housing administrators ignored student claims made in depositions ...
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Discussions About the Planning of a Black Cultural Center for Campus Profile

Document Description: In this report from UNC STV's campus news program, Campus Profile, students and ...
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Donelle Boose on finding your people in activism

Excerpt Description: Donelle Boose details the need for students engaged in activism to find like-minded ...
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Donelle Boose on institutional pressure and preservation

Excerpt Description: Donelle Boose explains that the need for institutional self-preservation operates against student activism ...
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Donelle Boose on racial justice as workers rights

Excerpt Description: Donelle Boose explains how CHAT tied together movements for justice, working for racial ...
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Donelle Boose on the Black community of Chapel Hill

Excerpt Description: Donelle Boose states the obvious responsibility of students to recognize the Black community ...
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Donelle Boose on the legacy of Yonni Chapman

Excerpt Description: Donelle Boose illustrates the personality and purpose-driven work of her friend, Yonni Chapman, ...
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Donelle Boose on UNC as a microcosm of the United States

Excerpt Description: Donelle Boose describes how her feelings about UNC-Chapel Hill changed from positive and ...
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Donelle Boose on using the legacy of the past

Excerpt Description: Donelle Boose explains how learning from past justice movements should inform the questions ...
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Donyell Roseboro on the need for a social space within the Stone Center

Excerpt Description: Donyell Roseboro, who wrote her dissertation on the BCC movement, describes her evolving ...
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Ed Chaney on the history of Black student spaces

Excerpt Description: Ed Chaney details the history of attacks against spaces for Black students on ...
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Elaine Massey at the Confederate Monument on MLK Day Photograph

Document Description: Elaine Massey, a housekeeper at the University, holds up a poster that reads ...
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Elizabeth Brooks Accepting the Mary Smith-Elizabeth Brook Human Rights Award

Document Description: Photograph depicts Elizabeth Brooks, one of the leaders of the 1969 Foodworkers' Strike, ...
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Elizabeth Brooks on the first night of the Foodworkers’ Strike

Excerpt Description: Elizabeth Brooks describes the first night of the first Foodworkers Strike in February 1969 ...
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Embodied Unsung Founders Memorial

Document Description: The Real Silent Sam Coalition used visual demonstrations and performance art to engage ...
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Erica Smiley on collectively leveraging student power in social movements

Excerpt Description: Erica Smiley recounts the moment in which she was transformed by the idea ...
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Erica Smiley on self-empowerment and the fight against tuition hikes

Excerpt Description: Erica Smiley remembers the moment in which she utilized her power as a ...
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Erica Smiley on the importance of organizing North Carolina

Excerpt Description: Erica Smiley describes her relationship to the state of North Carolina and the ...
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Erica Smiley on the importance of the history of the Black Student Movement

Excerpt Description: Erica Smiley explains the uniqueness of the Black Student Movement as partially directed ...
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Fess Up Silent Sam!

Document Description: This document collects a number of buildings and spaces on the campus and ...
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Final Housekeepers Settlement Agreement

Document Description: On November 26, 1996, the UNC Housekeepers' Association official settled with the University, ...
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First Meeting of the Real Silent Sam Coalition

Document Description: In August 2011, a new organization comprised of both students and Chapel Hill ...
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Floyd McKissick on experiences of first Black students at UNC-Chapel Hill

Excerpt Description: Floyd McKissick describes the treatment from white students he experienced as one of ...
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Foodworkers’ Strike Photographic Negatives of State Patrolmen

Document Description: Photographic negatives taken by a member of the Black Student Movement show the ...
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Freedom Legacy Project Interest Flyer

Document Description: This flyer documents one of the few interest meetings for the Freedom Legacy Project, ...
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Freeze! Silent Sam Cartoon

Document Description: This cartoon in Black Ink from 1991 depicts the University's Confederate Monument, "Silent ...
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Hardin’s Plantation Banner

Document Description: On March 17, 1992, Chancellor Paul Hardin gave a speech on the steps ...
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Have You Checked to See if Your Chancellor Was Doing His Job Today?

Document Description: By the spring of 1992 it became clear to BCC supporters that the ...
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Henry Foust on early attacks against the Black Student Movement

Excerpt Description: Henry Foust explains the history of attacks against the Black Student Movement and ...
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Henry Foust on the role of Upendo Lounge in creating social space

Excerpt Description: Henry Foust explains the role of Upendo Lounge for Black students through the ...
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Historical Memorandum of Law for the Housekeepers Settlement

Document Description: The housekeepers' lawsuit was grounded in the phrase within the thirteenth amendment which ...
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Housekeepers Association Proposed Settlement Draft

Document Description: In meetings with lawyers and advisors, the UNC Housekeepers Association developed by January ...
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Housekeepers Confrontation of Plant Manager, Claude Swecker

Document Description: In the spring semester of 1980, housekeeping supervisors threatened to fire dozens of housekeepers ...
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Housekeepers Deliver Report Card to Chancellor Hooker

Document Description: Though the UNC Housekeepers' Association won their settlement in November 1996, they were ...
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Housekeeping Workers Taking A Stand

Document Description: This flyer lists a number of problems experienced by the largely Black housekeeping ...
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Hurston Hall Banner

Document Description: On the last day of classes for the spring 2015 semester, members of ...
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John Bradley on making UNC a leader in social justice

Excerpt Description: John Bradley describes how students in the BCC movement used the elite status ...
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John Bradley on shifting the narrative of social movements to create change

Excerpt Description: John Bradley explains that when movements stall, there is a need to shift ...
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John Bradley on the importance of Black women’s leadership

Excerpt Description: John Bradley describes the respect he had for the Black women who led ...
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John Pope Advertisement Against the BCC

Document Description: By September 1993, the Board of Trustees had already approved a free-standing Black ...
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John Sellars on the creation of first office for the Black Student Movement

Excerpt Description: John Sellars describes the significance of the creation of the first office for ...
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John Sellars on the relationship between Black students and Black community of Chapel Hill

Excerpt Description: John Sellars explains that the main difference between the BSM and the UNC ...
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Julius Chambers to President Friday and Chancellor Sitterson

Document Description: Julius Chambers (UNC School of Law '62) and law partner Adam Stein were ...
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Karen Parker on integration as a responsibility to future Black students

Excerpt Description: Karen Parker, the first Black woman to graduate from the University, explains how ...
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Kendall Luton on needing spaces for Black students on campus

Excerpt Description: Kendall Luton explains what he feels like to be the only Black student ...
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Layout of the Black Cultural Center in the Student Union

Document Description: Though many Black students and faculty were dissatisfied with the temporary space set ...
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Letter from Black Awareness Council to Chancellor Hardin

Document Description: This correspondence from members of the Black Awareness Council to Chancellor Paul Hardin ...
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Letter from Chancellor Hardin to Donald Boulton Regarding Demands of BCC Supporters

Document Description: This note from Chancellor Paul Hardin to Donald Boulton, the vice chancellor and ...
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Letter from Coach Mack Brown to Chancellor Hardin

Document Description: After members of the Black Awareness Council and football team lead a series ...
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Letter from Margo Crawford to Student Supporters of the BCC

Document Description: This letter from Margo Crawford to student supporters of the BCC urges students ...
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Letter from Pauli Murray to Chancellor Nelson Ferebee Taylor

Document Description: The University System struggled through the 1970s and into the mid-1980s to meet ...
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Letter from Pauli Murray to Frank Porter Graham

Document Description: In this letter, the future human rights activist Pauli Murray, a descendant of ...
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Letter from Sonja Stone to Donald Boulton about BCC space

Document Description: Dr. Sonja Stone wrote Donald Boulton in February 1989 with a report of ...
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Letter from the Occupants of South Building to Chancellor Hardin

Document Description: On April 1st, 1992 students began a two-week long sit-in in South Building ...
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Map of Potential Sites for the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center

Document Description: The BCC Advisory Board and the Provost's BCC Working Group employed Yongue Architects ...
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March In Support of the UNC Housekeepers Association Flyer

Document Description: Before their final settlement with the University in November 1996, the UNC Housekeepers' ...
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Mars Earle on creating social spaces within and outside the movement

Excerpt Description: Mars Earle describes the creation of "women's nights," social events which brought together ...
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Mars Earle on learning the history of UNC-Chapel Hill

Excerpt Description: Mars Earle explains how they learned the history of the University at the ...
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Mars Earle on movement leadership through generations of student organizing

Excerpt Description: Mars Earle describes how the movement to rename Saunders Hall prioritized the leadership ...
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Mars Earle on the joy of a party for Black students on Polk Place

Excerpt Description: Mars Earle details a party for Black students held on Polk Place on ...
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Maya Little Contextualizing the Confederate Monument

Document Description: On April 30, 2018, Maya Little, a graduate student in the History Department ...
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Membership Role and Dues Paid for the Janitors’ Association, 1935

Document Description: Kennon Cheek, Frank Hairston, Elliott Washington, and Melvin Rich established the Janitors' Association ...
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Memorial for James Lewis Cates and William Murphey

Document Description: The Black Student Movement rallied in 1971 at the University's Confederate Monument in ...
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Memorial to James Lewis Cates

Document Description: Rallies following the removal of the Confederate Monument in August and October of ...
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Michelle Brown on communication throughout coalition building

Excerpt Description: Michelle Brown explains how difficult communicating across student organizations and interests can be, ...
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Michelle Brown on the naming of Carolina Hall

Excerpt Description: Michelle Brown remembers the renaming of Saunders Hall and the activism of the ...
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Michelle Thomas on the connected struggle for equity for Black students and Black workers

Excerpt Description: Michelle Thomas describes the connection between the Black Cultural Center movement and the housekeepers' ...
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Michelle Thomas on the dynamic social space of the Black Cultural Center

Excerpt Description: Michelle Thomas details the dynamic social space of the old Black Cultural Center ...
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Monument to a World Without White Supremacy

Document Description: Around 250 students and community members gathered on August 20, 2018 at the ...
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Omololu Babatunde on the invocation of Zora Neale Hurston Hall

Excerpt Description: Omololu Babatunde recounts the history of Zora Neale Hurston's presence on the UNC-Chapel ...
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Omololu Babatunde on the possibility of Hurston Hall

Excerpt Description: Omololu Babatunde explains that much of collective memory of efforts to rename Saunders ...
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On the Wake of Emancipation Campaign Protest

Document Description: The On the Wake of Emancipation Campaign was created by Kristi Booker, the ...
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On the Wake of Emancipation Demands

Document Description: The On the Wake of Emancipation Campaign was created by Kristi Booker, the ...
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Opening of the Black Cultural Center for Campus Profile

Document Description: In this report from UNC STV's campus new program, Campus Profile, students and ...
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Phi Beta Sigma Great Hall Party Flyer

Document Description: Phi Beta Sigma hosted a party in the Great Hall in the Student ...
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Political Cartoon of Chancellor Hardin as KKK Member

Document Description: This political cartoon depicts Chancellor Paul Hardin and Student Government's House Speaker, Tim ...
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Political Cartoon Regarding the SAGA Corporation

Document Description: Following the conclusion of the first Foodworkers' Strike in May 1969, the University, ...
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Poll: BCC issue divides UNC on racial lines

Document Description: The campus community’s allegiances divided between the case for a multicultural center versus ...
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Presentation of the Mary Smith-Elizabeth Brook Human Rights Award

Document Description: The Campaign for Historical Accuracy and Truth raised $700 in funds for the ...
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President of the Black Student Movement on Housing Segregation

Document Description: The 1984-1985 President of the Black Student Movement, Sherrod Banks, writes in The ...
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Preston Dobbins on the creation of the Black Student Movement

Excerpt Description: Preston Dobbins details the shuttering of the UNC-NAACP group and the creation of ...
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Proposal for New Plaque on Saunders Hall

Document Description: This document proposes wording for a new plaque to be placed on Saunders ...
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Proposal for the Black Cultural Center, 1986

Document Description: The final report from the Black cultural center planning committee, issued in February ...
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Protest at University Day in Support of Housekeepers

Document Description: Almost a full year after the settlement had been reached between the University ...
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Protest at University Day in Support of Upendo Lounge

Document Description: This photograph depicts a protest held by Black students at University Day, October ...
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Questions about University History from the Freedom Legacy Project

Document Description: These notes, taken by Yonni Chapman, list a number of ideas for research ...
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Rally to support the African-American Studies Department

Document Description: In the fall of 2014, the University-appointed independent investigator Kenneth Wainstein issued what ...
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Real Silent Sam Coalition Demands, 2015

Document Description: The Real Silent Sam Coalition issued these demands in April 2015, before the ...
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Renee Alexander Craft on building an usable institutional memory for student organizations

Excerpt Description: Renee Alexander Craft describes her wish that students archive and document themselves as ...
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Renee Alexander Craft on coalition building across spaces and organizations

Excerpt Description: Renee Alexander Craft details how different campus organizations and interests feed into each ...
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Renee Alexander Craft on creating campus spaces of prestige and adaptation

Excerpt Description: Renee Alexander Craft describes how different spaces can interact with people, using the ...
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Renee Alexander Craft on learning from the legacies of past social movements

Excerpt Description: Renee Alexander Craft explains how students can learn from the legacies of past ...
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Renee Alexander Craft on potentials for the Stone Center

Excerpt Description: Renee Alexander Craft states her love and support for the Stone Center and ...
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Renee Alexander Craft on strategies of direct action for community

Excerpt Description: Renee Alexander Craft explains how strategies of direct action communicate to other students, ...
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Renee Alexander Craft on the legacy of the BCC

Excerpt Description: Renee Alexander Craft remembers how the Fishbowl space operated and what it looked ...
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Renee Alexander Craft on using academics in campus activism

Excerpt Description: Renee Alexander Craft explains the importance of access to academics and multiple ways ...
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Report on Michelle Thomas’s Leadership of the Black Student Movement

Document Description: The work of Michelle Thomas, the dynamic leader of the Black Student Movement ...
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Report on Myths About Black Students from Hinton-James

Document Description: Though Hinton James Residence Hall had been open less than a decade, by ...
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Ruby Sinreich on the successes and failures of the BCC movement

Excerpt Description: Ruby Sinreich describes her belief that the BCC movement was a success, but ...
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Schedule for Upendo Lounge Use

Document Description: With the opening of Upendo Lounge in 1973 after several years of the ...
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Shannon Brien on increasing approach of intersectional organizing

Excerpt Description: Shannon Brien describes how learning the legacy of past campus activism can be ...
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Sit-In at South Building for the BCC Flyer

Document Description: On April 1st, 1992 BCC students supporters began a two-week long sit-in in ...
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Sonja Haynes Stone Task Force ‘Stones’ South Building

Document Description: When students returned to campus for the start of school year in late ...
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Speeches At the Conclusion of Foodworkers’ Strike

Document Description: Howard Fuller, Preston Dobbins, and Elizabeth Brooks address the crowd of supporters of ...
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Spike Lee Rally and Reaction

Document Description: The national coverage of the Black Awareness Council in the fall of 1992 ...
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Student Protestors Arrested in Chancellor Hardin’s Office

Document Description: Following a two week-long sit-in in South Building, on April 15, 1993, Chancellor ...
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Students Protest Pro-Confederate Rally at the Confederate Monument

Document Description: On October 25th, 2015, an organization called “Alamance County Taking Back Alamance County” ...
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Students Seeking Historical Truth Decoration of Saunders Hall

Document Description: The first student organization that formed around issues relating to the University’s history ...
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Students Seeking Historical Truth Presentation to the Black Student Movement

Document Description: The first student organization that formed around issues relating to the University’s history ...
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Students Seeking Historical Truth Speak Out

Document Description: The first student organization that formed around issues relating to the University’s history ...
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Students Seeking Historical Truth Speak Out Response from White Student

Document Description: The first student organization that formed around issues relating to the University’s history ...
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Taylor Webber-Fields on Black students activating internal power to create change

Excerpt Description: Taylor Webber-Fields states her desire for all Black students to know that they ...
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Taylor Webber-Fields on creating a different kind of Tar Heel

Excerpt Description: Taylor Webber-Fields explains that the Real Silent Sam Coalition was significant in that ...
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Taylor Webber-Fields on organizing as a way to restore voice to Black students

Excerpt Description: Taylor Webber-Fields explains that the movement to rename Saunders Hall was more about ...
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Taylor Webber-Fields on the collective creation of language based on shared experience

Excerpt Description: Taylor Webber-Fields explains the importance of Black students needing to collectively create a ...
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Taylor Webber-Fields on the movement to give voice to Black students

Excerpt Description: Taylor Webber-Fields remembers the "Speaking Back to Wainstein Rally" was a space to ...
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This Is What Saunders Would Do To Me

Document Description: In the spring semester of 2015, members of the Real Silent Sam Coalition ...
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Tim Minor on the responsibility of alumni to support current Black students

Excerpt Description: Tim Minor explains his interest in learning from current Black students what they ...
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Tim Minor on the role of the Stone Center for Black students

Excerpt Description: Tim Minor describes how the role of the Black Cultural Center/Stone Center has ...
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Tim Smith at a speak-out in the Pit for the Black Awareness Council

Document Description: Tim Smith, one of the founders of the Black Awareness Council, holds the ...
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Transcription of Board of Trustees Meeting Regarding Renaming Saunders Hall

Document Description: Three members of the Real Silent Sam Coalition--Taylor Webber-Fields, Omololu Babatunde, and Dylan ...
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University Buildings: Racist Pasts and Current Meanings Panel Flyer

Document Description: Students Seeking Historical Truth was founded by Kristi Booker, a president of the ...
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Video of Foodworkers’ Strike and State Patrolmen Outside Lenoir Hall

Document Description: On March 6, 1969, ostensibly to keep order on the campus and to ...
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Walter Jackson on a love-hate relationship with UNC-Chapel Hill

Excerpt Description: Walter Jackson expresses the feeling that many of the first Black students at ...
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We Are All Housekeepers Newsletter

Document Description: We Are All Housekeepers served as a support organization for the UNC Housekeepers' ...
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Younge Architects Report on Possible Locations for the Sonja Stone Black Cultural Center

Document Description: The BCC Advisory Board and the Provost's BCC Working Group employed Yongue Architects ...
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