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 example of the first BlackContinue Reading
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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 the public narrative in orderContinue Reading
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 the BCC movement, explaining howContinue Reading
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 of UNC-Chapel Hill as aContinue Reading
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 Hill campus in the 1940sContinue Reading
Black Freedom Monument on McCorkle Place
Document Description: These notes, written by Yonni Chapman, describe an imagined Black freedom monument, which would explain the active roleContinue Reading
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 with racial injustice was StudentContinue Reading
Black Student Movement Demands, 1997
Document Description: In November 1997, the Black Student Movement issued a new list of twenty-two demands to the University administration,Continue Reading
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. After delivering a letter toContinue Reading
Continuing Student Protest Report in Black Ink
Document Description: Black Ink reported on the continued protests from the Black cultural center movement, connecting them to the 1969Continue Reading