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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

1938–1991 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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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.

Why this is here: Its title names this person.

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.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Stone, Sonja Haynes, 1938-1991.

UNC

Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History records, 1984-2013.

Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History · 1984

Organizational records of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, 1984 to 2013, roughly 10,500 items across 12.5 linear feet in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40341. Topics include African American students at Chapel Hill, race relations at the university, student movements, the building itself, and Sonja Haynes Stone (1938-1991), for whom the center is named.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Stone, Sonja Haynes, 1938-1991.

UNC

Business as usual at North Carolina.

Madzimoyo, Wekesa Olatunji · 1980 · Council on Learning

An article by Wekesa Olatunji Madzimoyo on race relations and African American students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, printed in Change for January 1980 and separately issued by the Council on Learning. It follows an earlier piece by Randall Williams on the same campus. Sonja Haynes Stone is among the people discussed. Nine pages.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Stone, Sonja Haynes, 1938-1991.

UNC

Southeastern Black Press Institute Records, 1976-1979

Southeastern Black Press Institute · 1976

The Southeastern Black Press Institute is documented here by about 200 items in one linear foot covering 1976 to 1979, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40502. Topics include the African American press in the 20th century, the study and teaching of journalism, the curricula of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Sonja Haynes Stone, 1938 to 1991. In English.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Stone, Sonja Haynes, 1938-1991.

UNC

Assistants to the Chancellor of the University of the North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Susan H. Ehringhaus records, 1964-1985.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Assistant to the Chancellor · 1964

Files of Susan H. Ehringhaus as an assistant to the chancellor at UNC, 1964 to 1985, about 31,200 items in 43.5 linear feet, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40031. Topics include Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, discrimination in higher education, faculty tenure in North Carolina, legal work inside the university, and the names Sonja Haynes Stone and Moye Freymann.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Stone, Sonja Haynes, 1938-1991.

UNC

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  1. 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 StoneUNC University Archives (For the Record): Student Protests in Support of the Black Cultural Center, 1992
  2. 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 StoneDaily Tar Heel, July 29, 1993, p. 1: BOT approves BCC on Coker site
  3. 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 StoneDaily Tar Heel (DigitalNC): Set in Stone, August 23, 2004, page 1

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