Schedule for Upendo Lounge Use
Document Description: With the opening of Upendo Lounge in 1973 after several years of the BSM’s advocating for a meetingContinue Reading
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Black Monday Rally
Document Description: During the second Foodworkers’ Strike in December 1969, Black students once again held protests in support of theContinue Reading
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. Interviewee Name: Elizabeth BrooksContinue Reading
Carol McDonald on her arrest in South Building
Excerpt Description: Carol McDonald describes the series of events that eventually led to her arrest by UNC campus police. Continue Reading
Ashley Davis on foodworkers’ funding the strike
Excerpt Description: Ashley Davis explains that foodworkers and their supporters created the soul food cafeteria in Manning Hall to provideContinue Reading
Greenlaw Wall
The wall in front of Greenlaw Hall facing the Undergraduate Library became an informal gathering space for Black students beginningContinue Reading
Upendo Lounge in SASB North
Originally located on the first floor of Chase Hall, Upendo Lounge operated as a significant social space for Black studentsContinue Reading
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
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
Black Student Movement Office in the Frank Porter Graham Student Union
Prior to the opening of Upendo Lounge in February 1973, the Black Student Movement (BSM) procured a small office spaceContinue Reading