Unsung Founders Memorial
The Unsung Founders Memorial was designed to honor of the “men and women of color who helped raise the firstContinue Reading
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Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
A progressive student-led movement in the early 1990s to build a free-standing building for the Black Cultural Center (BCC) createdContinue Reading
Horton Residence Hall
George Moses Horton, a former slave and the first Black author published in the South, traveled eight miles to theContinue Reading
Cheek-Clark Building
On September 17, 1998, dozens of members of the University community, representing housekeepers, administrators, professors, and trustees, gathered to rededicateContinue Reading
Wilson-Dey Site
The Wilson-Dey Site was one of two possible sites for the construction of the free-standing Black Cultural Center (BCC). ByContinue Reading
Coker Woods Site
The Coker Woods Site was one of two possible sites for the construction of the free-standing Black Cultural Center (BCC),Continue Reading
Black Cultural Center (The Fishbowl)
Following its opening in the Frank Porter Graham Student Union in 1988, the Black Cultural Center (or The Fishbowl) servedContinue Reading
Smith Student Activities Center (Dean Dome)
During the height of the Black Cultural Center movement in September 1992, the filmmaker Spike Lee, along with Black nationalistContinue Reading
Upendo Lounge in Chase Hall
Opened in 1973, Upendo Lounge was the first formal Black counter-space on the campus which operated to provide for theContinue Reading
Hamilton Hall
In 1972, the new social sciences building opened, named for Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton, a longtime professor of historyContinue Reading