The Sonja Haynes Stone Center For Black Culture and History

BCC Supporters Give Hardin Ultimatum

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

Black Awareness Council Platform

Document Description: John Bradley, Tim Smith, Jimmy Hitchcock, and Malcolm Marshall, four members of the ...

Black Student Movement Demands, 1979

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

Black Students Protest Sonja Stone Tenure Decision

Document Description: In 1979, Dr. Sonja Stone, head of the curriculum in African-American studies, was ...

Carol McDonald on cycles of activism and change

Excerpt Description: Carol McDonald recounts the cycles of activism that occur and the frustrations that ...

Carol McDonald on her arrest in South Building

Excerpt Description: Carol McDonald describes the series of events that eventually led to her arrest ...

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 ...

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 ...

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' ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chris Baumann on generational movements made through small acts

Excerpt Description: Chris Baumann explains that justice movements at the University are built by each ...

Chris Baumann on student power and worker power

Excerpt Description: Chris Baumann reveals that students and workers have and can collectively leverage power ...

Chris Faison on the possibilities for the Stone Center

Excerpt Description: Chris Faison details possibilities for growth and change for the space of the ...

Common Myths About the Black Cultural Center Flyer

Document Description: Though a Black cultural center already existed on the campus, myths about the ...

Continuing Student Protest Report in Black Ink

Document Description: Black Ink reported on the continued protests from the Black cultural center movement, ...

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 ...

Ed Chaney on the history of Black student spaces

Excerpt Description: Ed Chaney details the history of attacks against spaces for Black students on ...

Hardin’s Plantation Banner

Document Description: On March 17, 1992, Chancellor Paul Hardin gave a speech on the steps ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Pope Advertisement Against the BCC

Document Description: By September 1993, the Board of Trustees had already approved a free-standing Black ...

Letter from Black Awareness Council to Chancellor Hardin

Document Description: This correspondence from members of the Black Awareness Council to Chancellor Paul Hardin ...

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 ...

Letter from Coach Mack Brown to Chancellor Hardin

Document Description: After members of the Black Awareness Council and football team lead a series ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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' ...

Phi Beta Sigma Great Hall Party Flyer

Document Description: Phi Beta Sigma hosted a party in the Great Hall in the Student ...

Political Cartoon of Chancellor Hardin as KKK Member

Document Description: This political cartoon depicts Chancellor Paul Hardin and Student Government's House Speaker, Tim ...

Poll: BCC issue divides UNC on racial lines

Document Description: The campus community’s allegiances divided between the case for a multicultural center versus ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Renee Alexander Craft on potentials for the Stone Center

Excerpt Description: Renee Alexander Craft states her love and support for the Stone Center and ...

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, ...

Renee Alexander Craft on using academics in campus activism

Excerpt Description: Renee Alexander Craft explains the importance of access to academics and multiple ways ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sonja Haynes Stone Task Force ‘Stones’ South Building

Document Description: When students returned to campus for the start of school year in late ...

Spike Lee Rally and Reaction

Document Description:  The national coverage of the Black Awareness Council in the fall of 1992 ...

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 ...

Suggested Questions for Chancellor Hardin

Document Description: Chancellor Hardin, who became a “nemesis” for many of the student supporters of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...