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Sonja Haynes Stone

Sonja Haynes Stone (1938–1991) came to UNC in 1974 as an assistant professor, headed its African and Afro-American Studies curriculum from 1974 to 1979 and advised the Black Student Movement from 1974 to 1980. She was the leading advocate for a freestanding Black cultural center, which opened in her name in 2004.

Source: The Carolina Story (UNC): Sonja Haynes Stone (1938-1991) and the Stone Center for Black History and Culture

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StorylineHonoring Martin Luther King Jr. in Chapel Hill, 1970–19931970–1993 · 46 events · Mayor Howard Lee proclaimed a Martin Luther King Day in Chapel Hill in January 1970, though UNC declined to close, and the aldermen named the day again in 1973. UNC's Faculty Council struck King's name from a proposed yearly observance in 1977, but a King Memorial Lecture began in 1978 and a campus-wide celebration in 1982. In 1984 Chapel Hill made King's birthday a town holiday. Andrew Young, Max Robinson and Randall Robinson were among the King Memorial Lecture speakers of the 1980s, Carrboro's mayor proclaimed a King Day in 1981, and King's daughters Yolanda and Bernice spoke at UNC's celebrations in 1984 and 1989. UNC held classes on the first federal King holiday in 1986 but, after students petitioned, closed for it in 1988 under new state legislation. Rallies and marches on Franklin Street marked the holiday in 1987 and 1988, and Maya Angelou and June Jordan spoke at UNC in 1988 and 1989. In 1991 a King holiday gathering at the post office opposed the Persian Gulf war and UNC's tenth annual celebration brought C.T. Vivian, and in 1992 an NAACP march and a service at First Baptist Church marked the day. In 1993 UNC housekeepers held a Unity Day dinner in King's honor. StorylinePressing UNC to hire Black faculty, 1972–19921972–1992 · 26 events · In 1972 UNC's Faculty Council urged departments to give first priority to hiring Black faculty, then about half of one percent. In 1982 the Black share was 2.7 percent, down from 3 percent in 1979 and 1980, and students marched to South Building through the winter of 1982-83. The Faculty Council adopted new resolutions in March 1983, and by that fall the count of Black faculty had reached 59, the most in UNC's history. The Faculty Council faulted the slow pace again in 1985, and in 1986 it heard that Black faculty had not grown and that none of 56 new appointments was Black. In 1988 Chancellor Christopher Fordham said Black faculty had fallen from 50 to 48 over three years. University counts from 1989 to 1992 ranged from 42 to 62 Black faculty members, and in 1992 the Committee on Black Faculty reported a gain of only two since 1986. That fall Chuck Stone's survey found 13 of the nation's 61 Black holders of endowed chairs at UNC. StorylineFounding the Black Cultural Center, 1984–19891984–1989 · 24 events · A planning committee formed in 1984 sought a Black Cultural Center at UNC, and the Black Student Movement objected as the plan shrank to about 1,500 square feet in the Carolina Union. The center held a pre-opening in 1987 and opened on July 1, 1988 under director Margo Crawford. The BSM pressed for a permanent building, and in 1989 planners released a feasibility study for one. StorylineThe Bicentennial Campaign for Carolina, 1990–19931990–1993 · 12 events · UNC's Bicentennial Campaign for Carolina raised private money for the University's 200th anniversary. After a quiet phase it opened on October 11, 1991 with a $320 million goal, as the Sonja Stone Task Force protested silently outside South Building. Gifts from Glaxo, First Union and the James M. Johnston Trust followed, and by May 1992 commitments passed $204.5 million. In 1993 it opened a phase for faculty and staff and raised its goal to $400 million, including $7 million for the Stone Black Cultural Center. StorylineThe movement for a freestanding Black Cultural Center, 1990–19941990–1994 · 114 events · The Faculty Council asked in 1990 for a new Black Cultural Center building, and after professor Sonja Haynes Stone died in August 1991, a student campaign won the center her name that October. In 1992 a coalition pressed for a freestanding building; Chancellor Paul Hardin opposed one into September, and after marches, a Spike Lee rally and his working group's report, he endorsed it on October 15. The trustees approved a site in July 1993. Student leaders accepted the trustees' Coker Woods site that November, and the Bicentennial Campaign took on the building's $7 million. In 1994 director Margo Crawford resigned, the Board of Governors approved the building, and NationsBank and other donors brought gifts to about $1.6 million by November.

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1969 UNC starts its Afro-American Studies curriculum The university began an Afro-American Studies curriculum in 1969 with a handful of courses. Black Ink's accounts of its early leaders differ: one has Gordon Cleveland in charge from 1969, with James Brewer, who came in 1971, co-director from 1972 until his death in 1974. Ten years on it was still a curriculum rather than a department, led by co-directors Sonja Haynes Stone and Roberta Dunbar, who pressed for departmental status. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Gordon Cleveland, James Brewer, Roberta DunbarBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 5, 1979, p. 6
fall 1974 Sonja H. Stone takes charge of the Afro-American Studies curriculum After James Brewer's death, Dr. Sonja H. Stone, hired as an assistant professor in education, took over direction of the Afro-American Studies curriculum, while Roberta Ann Dunbar directed African Studies. The two set about adding courses, publicizing the program and seeking departmental status. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: Peabody Hall, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Roberta Ann Dunbar, James BrewerBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 1974, p. 3
October 1975 Dean James Gaskin turns down department status for African and Afro-American studies Sonja H. Stone and Roberta Ann Dunbar, directors of the Afro-American and African studies curricula, applied to Dean James R. Gaskin of the College of Arts and Sciences for department status; Gaskin turned the request down, saying the University was not expanding and lacked resources. The curricula had been set up in 1969 after Black students demanded a department and major. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Roberta Ann Dunbar, James R. Gaskin · Also mentions: College of Arts and SciencesThe Daily Tar Heel, February 21, 1978, p. 1
1976-77 Sonja Stone founds the Black Presence Committee of Chapel Hill-Carrboro Sonja Haynes Stone founded and co-chaired the Black Presence Committee of Chapel Hill-Carrboro in 1976-77. In the same years she founded the Southeastern Black Press Institute and directed it from 1977 to 1979. Place: Chapel Hill and CarrboroSearch the index · Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), August 26, 1991, p. 2
January 1976 Black journalism students organize the North Carolina Association of Journalists Black students in the School of Journalism organized the association to promote the Black press, on an idea of Afro-American Studies director Sonja Stone; Winston-Salem Chronicle publishers Ernest Pitt and Ndubisi Egemonye spoke at its first meeting. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ernest Pitt, Ndubisi Egemonye, Sonja Stone · Also mentions: School of JournalismSearch the index · Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 1976, p. 3
summer 1976 Afro-American Studies teaches its first course on the history of the Black press Sonja Haynes Stone, with a graduate assistant, taught Afro-American Studies 65, the History of the Black Press, in the first summer session of 1976, and that spring she had helped students form the North Carolina Association of Journalists to support the Black press. In 1976-77 Bernadine Moses taught the first Black press course offered in the regular session. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Bernadine MosesSearch the index · Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), August 18, 1976, p. 13
by February 1977 Afro-American Studies wins a Rockefeller grant for a Black press institute The African and Afro-American Studies Curriculum received a Rockefeller Foundation grant for a Southeastern Regional Black Press Institute, a 1977 series of conferences, workshops and seminars to train future leaders of Black newspapers. Sonja Haynes Stone and Bernadine Moses directed it, and the curriculum proposed a center of Black press archives at the university. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Bernadine MosesSearch the index · Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 22, 1977, p. 3
March 18-20, 1977 The BSM hosts the first tri-state conference of Black students at UNC Black students from predominantly Black and white campuses in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia met at UNC for a Black Student Movement conference, the first such gathering ever held on the campus. Called because of the appeals court ruling against UNC's minority guarantees, it offered speakers and workshops on communications, law, research and publicity, with Sonja Haynes Stone among the opening speakers. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: University, Chapel HillBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), April 15, 1977, p. 3
summer 1978 The Southeastern Black Press Institute holds its first summer journalism seminar The Southeastern Black Press Institute, a demonstration project of UNC's Afro-American Studies Curriculum headed by Sonja H. Stone, brought 11 high school students from the Southeast to Chapel Hill for four weeks of classes in news writing, the Black press and photography. The first seminar cost about $9,000 and held a gospel festival on July 30 saluting the Black press and the Black church. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), August 18, 1978, p. 10
October 19, 1978 Bernice Reagon sings at an Afro-American Studies open house in Upendo Lounge The Afro-American Studies curriculum held an open house in Upendo Lounge at which the folk singer and oral historian Bernice Reagon sang and explained Black songs and the Opeyo Dancers performed. Director Sonja Stone's program announced plans for its tenth anniversary in spring 1979, including a dinner honoring its first director, James Brewer. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: Upendo Lounge, Chase Hall, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Bernice Reagon, James Brewer, Sonja StoneSearch the index · Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 6, 1978, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 19, 1978, p. 4
By March 1979 UNC denies tenure to Afro-American Studies director Sonja Haynes Stone By the end of March 1979 the university had denied tenure to Sonja H. Stone, director of the Afro-American Studies curriculum. Black Student Movement leaders who met Chancellor Ferebee Taylor on March 30 said he told them the matter was out of his hands, and by April 20 the Daily Tar Heel reported that Stone had decided to appeal. Black Ink's review of the 1978-79 year listed the denial among the year's news, and the new BSM chair's message that August spoke of the firing of Black faculty and of demonstrations during the year. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ferebee TaylorBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), September 4, 1979, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, April 3, 1979, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, April 20, 1979, p. 5; The Daily Tar Heel, December 3, 1979, p. 1
April 4, 1979 About 200 students march on South Building and sit in over tenure and Black studies Some 200 students in a Black Student Movement demonstration marched in the rain to South Building to protest what they called the administration's growing insensitivity, after Chancellor Ferebee Taylor told BSM leaders they had no recourse on the denial of tenure to Afro-American Studies director Sonja Stone. When Provost J. Charles Morrow would not come out the marchers held a 30-minute sit-in; Morrow promised to study funding for Afro-American Studies but not a separate department. People: Sonja Haynes Stone, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: South Building, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: J. Charles Morrow, Sonja Stone, Ferebee TaylorThe Daily Tar Heel, April 5, 1979, p. 1

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November 30, 1979 About 200 Black students rally at South Building for Sonja Stone's tenure About 200 Black students rallied on the steps of South Building for tenure for Dr. Sonja Haynes Stone, the hiring and keeping of Black faculty and the recruiting of Black students. BSM chairperson William Bynum read the movement's recommendations, and the students marched to Morehead Planetarium, where they waited in the faculty lounge for two and a half hours while the trustees heard Stone's tenure appeal. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: South Building and Morehead Planetarium, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: William BynumBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), January 7, 1980, p. 1
December 14, 1979 UNC trustees ask for a rehearing of Sonja Stone's tenure case After a brief public hearing at which speakers from the BSM, the North Carolina Tenure Defense Committee, a student task force on Black faculty and the Association of Women Students addressed them, the trustees asked that Dr. Sonja Haynes Stone's tenure denial be heard again. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: University, Chapel HillBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), January 29, 1980, p. 1
by January 1980 Chancellor Taylor names a faculty committee to rehear the Stone tenure case At the trustees' request, Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor named seven faculty members, chaired by history professor George V. Taylor, to rehear Dr. Sonja Haynes Stone's tenure case. Stone's lawyer and BSM chairperson William Bynum objected that the committee had no one from Afro-American Studies. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, George Vanderbeck Taylor, Sonja Haynes Stone Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: William BynumBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), January 29, 1980, p. 1
April 25, 1980 Students hold a show of support for Sonja Haynes Stone's tenure appeal outside South Building Students backing Sonja Haynes Stone's appeal of UNC's refusal to grant her tenure gathered for a 'show of faces' outside South Building on April 25, the day the trustees met, the Daily Tar Heel reported. The Black Student Movement endorsed the demonstration at a later meeting; Stone left soon after for a research fellowship at Ohio State while keeping up her appeal. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: South Building, University, Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, May 29, 1980, p. 3
July 11, 1980 The UNC Board of Governors grants Sonja Haynes Stone tenure After 18 months of appeals in which she charged racism, sexism and denial of due process, Dr. Sonja Haynes Stone of the African and Afro-American Studies curriculum was granted tenure by the UNC Board of Governors, though she was not promoted from assistant to associate professor. She thanked the BSM in a letter to Black Ink. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: University, Chapel HillBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), August 18, 1980, p. 1 · Also: Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), December 1, 1981, p. 5
Early July 1980 UNC trustees recommend tenure for Sonja Haynes Stone After a special faculty committee reviewed her case and reported in June, the UNC Board of Trustees, apparently voting by mail in the week of July 7, 1980, recommended to the Board of Governors that Afro-American Studies professor Sonja Haynes Stone be granted tenure. The governors granted it on July 11 without a promotion to associate professor. Black Ink later dated the trustees' recommendation May 19, 1980. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: University, Chapel HillBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), December 1, 1981, p. 5 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, May 29, 1980, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, June 19, 1980, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, July 17, 1980, p. 1
by November 1981 Sonja Stone takes her denied promotion to litigation Back from a year at Ohio State, Sonja Haynes Stone said she was pursuing in the courts the associate professorship the Board of Governors had withheld when it granted her tenure. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: University, Chapel HillBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 12, 1981, p. 4
November 1982 to April 1983 Students march from the Carolina Union to South Building for more Black and women faculty From mid-November 1982 students marched from the Carolina Union to the steps of South Building, at times nearly 200 strong, after the chancellor's yearly report showed 51 Black members among 1,884 faculty. Sonja Stone spoke at one rally, 55 students signed a February 9, 1983 letter to the Daily Tar Heel, and by April a Student Committee on Faculty Hiring had formed to meet faculty candidates. People: Christopher C. Fordham III, Sonja Haynes Stone Place: South Building, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Sonja Stone · Also mentions: Carolina UnionBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), April 28, 1983, p. 4 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, December 2, 1982, p. 2
1984 Sonja Haynes Stone is promoted to associate professor Sonja H. Stone of African and Afro-American Studies, who had won tenure only after an appeal to the Board of Governors, was promoted to associate professor, and said the growth of Black studies meant more scholars could now judge her work. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: University, Chapel HillBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), December 7, 1984, p. 8
October 4, 1985 The Black Cultural Center steering committee forms a space subcommittee and approves a director's job description The 14-member Black Cultural Center steering committee formed a four-member subcommittee to study space needs and look for a site on campus, and approved a job description for a center director to go into its proposal to Vice Chancellor Donald A. Boulton. Committee member Sonja H. Stone, an associate professor of Afro-American studies, said the rough draft would not be released. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: Donald A. Boulton · Also mentions: Black Cultural CenterThe Daily Tar Heel, October 7, 1985, p. 3
January 19, 1989 Bernice King speaks during UNC's Martin Luther King Jr. week During the week marking Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, the Theta Pi chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha held its annual candlelight vigil with remarks by Sonja Stone, followed by an address on 'Choices' by Bernice King, King's youngest child, who urged students to take responsibility for their lives. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Bernice King, Sonja StoneSearch the index · Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 9, 1989, p. 3
December 1989 The African Studies Club brings Kwanzaa to UNC for the first time The African Studies Club, formed by students in Sonja Stone's Afro-American 67 course with help from Black Cultural Center director Margo Crawford, held the university's first Kwanzaa celebration, with the Afro-One dance, drama and drum company of Willingboro, New Jersey, performing. By December 1990 the club had renamed itself Kawaida and was sponsoring a week-long Kwanzaa. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Margo Crawford, Sonja Stone · Also mentions: Black Cultural CenterBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 19, 1990, p. 3 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, December 3, 1990, p. 3
1990 Sonja Haynes Stone receives the first Outstanding Black Faculty Award The UNC General Alumni Association gave Sonja Haynes Stone its first Outstanding Black Faculty Award, which honors professional and academic achievement and service to the university and its students, with an emphasis on minority involvement. The Class of 1990 also chose her for its Favorite Faculty Award. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: University, Chapel HillBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), August 26, 1991, p. 2
February to April 1990 Students start APPLES to bring service learning into UNC courses Students who began meeting in February 1990 founded APPLES (Allowing People to Plan Learning Experiences in Service), and Dean Gillian Cell organized a task force of faculty, administrators, students and community members, which first met on April 27, to add community service to courses in the College of Arts and Sciences. Black Ink later dated the task force to late May. The program was helped by a $5,000 grant from the Campus Outreach Opportunity League, and faculty taking part included Sonja Stone, Joel Schwartz and Peter Filene. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Joel Schwartz, Peter Filene, Gillian Cell, Sonja Stone · Also mentions: College of Arts and SciencesSearch the index · Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 12, 1990, p. 3 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, April 26, 1990, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, April 26, 1990, p. 13; The Daily Tar Heel, September 7, 1994, p. 3
1991–1993 Students campaign for a freestanding Black Cultural Center After Sonja Haynes Stone died in 1991, students, faculty and Black athletes at UNC pressed for a freestanding Black Cultural Center named for her. Following marches in September 1992, Chancellor Paul Hardin endorsed a freestanding building on October 15, 1992, and the trustees approved a site in 1993. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Paul Hardin · Also mentions: Black Cultural CenterUNC University Archives (For the Record): Student Protests in Support of the Black Cultural Center, 1992 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, November 19, 1991, p. 3
February 12, 1991 Students vote to fund a full-time APPLES service-learning coordinator In the spring campus elections students approved a 90-cent fee increase to create a full-time service-learning coordinator for APPLES (Allowing People to Plan Learning Experiences in Service), a student-founded program tying courses to community service, whose task force included Afro-American studies professor Sonja Stone. Applications for the $20,000-a-year post opened in March through the Center for Teaching and Learning. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Sonja StoneSearch the index · Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), March 25, 1991, p. 11
August 10, 1991 Professor Sonja Haynes Stone dies Sonja Haynes Stone, associate professor of African and Afro-American studies, died at Duke University Medical Center at 52, four days after she was found unconscious at her Durham home with a brain aneurysm. Students and colleagues remembered her as UNC's activist professor, an adviser to Black student groups and a leader of the drives for a freestanding Black Cultural Center and for department status for African and Afro-American studies. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: Duke University Medical Center, Durham · Also mentions: Black Cultural CenterBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), August 26, 1991, p. 2
late August to September 5, 1991 Students hold a two-week celebration of Sonja Haynes Stone's life and legacy A two-week program honored Stone with workshops at the Black Cultural Center on her as an activist professor, student activism in the civil rights years and the 1990s, and the future of Black studies, opening with a press conference at the center. Accounts of the opening differ: Black Ink's schedule began August 23 and a later Black Ink story said the celebration kicked off August 20, while the Daily Tar Heel's printed schedule began with a workshop on Monday, August 26. Amiri Baraka saluted Stone in the Hanes Art Center on August 28, and a memorial celebration in Memorial Hall closed the program on September 5. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: Black Cultural Center, Carolina Union, Chapel Hill · Also named: Amiri Baraka · Also mentions: Hanes Art Center, Memorial HallBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), August 26, 1991, p. 8 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, August 26, 1991, p. 2; The Daily Tar Heel, August 27, 1991, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, August 29, 1991, p. 1
August 1991 The Campus Y and the BSM dedicate the 1991-92 year to Sonja Haynes Stone The Campus Y adopted a resolution dedicating its year to Sonja Haynes Stone, who had sat on its advisory board in 1975-78 and from 1989, advised its Students for the Advancement of Race Relations and spoke each year at Freshman Camp. Vice Chancellor Donald Boulton urged the groups of the Division of Student Affairs to dedicate their year to her, and the Black Student Movement did the same. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: Campus Y, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Donald BoultonBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), August 26, 1991, p. 3
October 11-12, 1991 The Sonja Stone Task Force holds silent protests at the bicentennial opening and University Day As UNC opened its bicentennial celebration, about 30 members of the Sonja Stone Task Force stood silently in front of South Building to press three demands: naming the Black Cultural Center for Stone, an endowed chair in her name and department status for African and Afro-American studies. The next morning ten members attended the University Day observance in Memorial Hall. Three Styrofoam "stones" at South Building stood for the demands. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: South Building and Memorial Hall, University, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Memorial Hall, Black Cultural CenterBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 28, 1991, p. 8
October 25, 1991 UNC trustees rename the Black Cultural Center for Sonja Haynes Stone Meeting at the Carolina Inn, the Board of Trustees voted in closed session, with one member opposed, to name the Black Cultural Center for the late professor Sonja Haynes Stone, while about 50 members of the Sonja Stone Task Force waited in silence holding posters of her. Chancellor Paul Hardin told the board the students had his support, and Student Body President Matt Heyd spoke for the change. The marchers then went to South Building, removed the first of three Styrofoam "stones" standing for their demands and held a reception at the renamed center. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill · Also named: Paul Hardin, Matt Heyd · Also mentions: Black Cultural CenterBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 28, 1991, p. 5

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April 8, 1993 The Order of the Golden Fleece inducts Sonja Haynes Stone posthumously The University's oldest honorary society inducted 18 members, among them, posthumously, the late professor Sonja Haynes Stone, cited for helping plan the Black Cultural Center from its start and for building African and Afro-American Studies toward a full department. Others tapped included city planning chairman Michael Stegman and former state Senate majority leader Kenneth Royall Jr. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Michael Stegman, Kenneth Royall Jr. · Also mentions: Black Cultural CenterSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 12, 1993, p. 2
July 23, 1993 UNC Trustees approve a freestanding Black Cultural Center on the Coker site On July 23, 1993, the UNC Board of Trustees approved building a freestanding Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center on the Coker Woods site between Coker Hall and the Bell Tower. Supporters had wanted the Wilson-Dey site on the main quad, and student leaders accepted the Coker site that November. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Coker Hall, Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural CenterThe Daily Tar Heel, July 29, 1993, p. 1: BOT approves BCC on Coker site · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, November 19, 1992, p. 1
August 20–23, 2004 The Sonja Haynes Stone Center celebrates its grand opening After more than a decade of organizing, the freestanding Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History opened in Coker Woods with a four-day celebration. A Friday candlelight procession from the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery preceded Saturday's dedication by Chancellor James Moeser before more than 500 guests. People: Sonja Haynes Stone, James Moeser Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, Sonja Haynes Stone CenterThe Daily Tar Heel: Set in Stone, August 23, 2004, p. 1

People named in the same events

People named in the same dated entries as Sonja Haynes Stone, those sharing the most entries first. Each line links one of the shared entries in the chronology, where its source is cited. A shared entry shows these people in the same event, not how well they knew each other.

N. Ferebee Taylor 2 entries, including About 200 students march on South Building and sit in over tenure and Black studies (April 4, 1979)
Christopher C. Fordham III 1 entry: Students march from the Carolina Union to South Building for more Black and women faculty (November 1982 to April 1983)
George Vanderbeck Taylor 1 entry: Chancellor Taylor names a faculty committee to rehear the Stone tenure case (by January 1980)

Indexed works

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Don't believe the hype : the misrepresentation of the facts by the media concerning the construction of the Dr. Sonja Haynes Stone free-standing BCC

Merritt, David · 1994

David Merritt's 1994 production argues that press coverage misrepresented the facts of the campaign for a free standing Black Cultural Center named for Dr. Sonja Haynes Stone at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It runs about 52 minutes and is accompanied by a text of sixteen leaves with five preliminary pages. Topics include African American students at the university and race relations.

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Milestones : the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History grand opening celebration, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill : August 20-23, 2004.

Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History · 2004 · UNC, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History

Four days of events, from 20 to 23 August 2004, marked the grand opening of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at Chapel Hill, and this twenty six page illustrated program lays them out. The center issued it.