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Carolina Union (Frank Porter Graham Student Union)

In Chapel Hill. 87 dated events, 1968–2007.

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  • Lenoir Hall through J. Carlyle Sitterson, Howard N. Lee and 1 more
  • Memorial Hall through J. Carlyle Sitterson, Howard N. Lee and 1 more
  • South Building through J. Carlyle Sitterson, Robert W. Scott and 1 more
  • Manning Hall through J. Carlyle Sitterson and Robert W. Scott

In the chronology

  1. The Student Union and Student Stores open beside the undergraduate library around the Pit In 1968 the Frank Porter Graham Student Union and the Josephus Daniels Student Stores opened on South Road with the new R. B. House Undergraduate Library. The two-story concrete and glass buildings frame a sunken brick court, the Pit, and moved the center of student life there. NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 90
  2. Ralph David Abernathy joins the striking cafeteria workers in Chapel Hill SCLC president Ralph David Abernathy picketed with the striking SAGA workers behind Lenoir Hall, then told strikers, students and faculty gathered in the Carolina Union that he pledged them his support. He went on to South Building for a meeting with Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson and Mayor Howard Lee. People: J. Carlyle Sitterson, Howard N. Lee Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), December 1969, p. 1
  3. Student government freezes Black Ink's funds after the cafeteria strike After two issues in November and December 1969, Black Ink could not publish a third that school year because UNC's student government froze its funds over the Black Student Movement's part in the food workers' strike, according to a history of the paper by its first editor. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), April 1972, p. 8
  4. Mayor Howard Lee tells freshmen the town and university have become partners Speaking at a freshman orientation seminar in the Carolina Union, Mayor Howard Lee said town-university relations had moved from parent and child to partnership, urged that UNC leave the utilities business and that its businesses pay taxes, and asked students to take part in town government. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 20, 1971, p. 4
  5. The student Human Sexuality Information and Counseling Service begins counseling gay men The Human Sexuality Information and Counseling Service, a student peer counseling service in the Student Union, began counseling gay male students, matching each client with a gay or non-gay counselor as he preferred. The service later kept the Carolina Gay Association's library in its Suite B office. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), August 1976, p. 6
  6. An NAACP youth conference on politics meets at UNC Between 300 and 500 young people came to the campus for an NAACP conference on youth in the political process, a voter registration and membership drive aimed at new voters aged 18 to 20. Speakers included Governor Robert W. Scott, governor's race candidates Hargrove Bowles and James Holshouser, Clarence Mitchell of the NAACP's Washington bureau and Mayor Howard Lee, and workshops met in the Union and four campus halls. People: Robert W. Scott, Howard N. Lee Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 1972, p. 4
  7. The BSM holds its first Black Arts Cultural Festival Under the theme Moving Toward Blackness, the Black Student Movement's first Black Arts Cultural Festival ran a week: poetry in the Union coffee house, the Gospel Choir and the Opeyo Dancers in Memorial Hall, Sonia Sanchez's play Sister Son/ji, an African cabaret in Great Hall, and a Parents' Day at which Black parents formed a committee to support Black students and gubernatorial candidate Dr. Reginald Hawkins spoke. The Persuaders closed it with a free concert in Memorial Hall. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), April 1972, p. 1
  8. The BSM holds a sickle cell conference and tests about 200 people The Black Student Movement's two-day sickle cell anemia conference and benefit heard Dr. James Bryan of the UNC Medical School, and Black medical students gave free screening tests to about 200 people. Julius Cornell of the Winston-Salem Black Panther Party spoke in Memorial Hall on the disease's politics, and a talent show raised $115.16 for the Panthers' sickle cell research foundation. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), April 1972, p. 7
  9. Black students press the Campus Governing Council into a $10,000 BSM budget When the council's budget committee cut the Black Student Movement's 1973-74 request from about $14,500 to around $6,600, BSM officers argued against the cuts at its April hearings and Black students packed the council, at one point taking over a meeting to hurry the vote. The Campus Governing Council granted $10,000, and the Daily Tar Heel then called the BSM irresponsible, according to Black Ink. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), September 1973, p. 7
  10. The Campus Governing Council freezes Black Student Movement funds Beginning July 27, 1975 the student Campus Governing Council froze the BSM's funds over alleged treasury-law violations, released its general funds on September 23 and froze them again from November 3 to 18, and put it on treasury probation. The fight split the council, some of whose members resigned, and halted BSM spending for weeks. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), May 1976, p. 1
  11. The Campus Governing Council funds the BSM at a third of its request The student Campus Governing Council's finance committee cut the BSM's 1976-77 request of $26,550 to $8,750 plus a $10,000 loan; the council added $100 for the choir and $1,500 for a new Black Arts Festival category. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), May 1976, p. 1
  12. The Carolina Gay Association begins publishing its newsletter, Lambda The Carolina Gay Association published the first issue of Lambda, a special orientation edition marked Volume I, Number 1, mailed from Box 39 in the Student Union. The newsletter stayed the association's paper under each of its later names. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), August 1976, p. 1
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  1. The Carolina Gay Association gets an office in Carolina Union Room 216B Student government assigned Carolina Union Room 216B to the Carolina Gay Association as its office, though it would not pay for a telephone line, and members donated the office supplies. The room was still the group's office in 1993. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), March 1993, p. 11
  2. Black Ink wins its first journalism award Black Ink, the Black Student Movement's newspaper, won third place for best college magazine in the Society of Professional Journalists' Southern Region, its first journalism award. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 27, 1989, p. 6
  3. The Carolina Gay Association holds its first Gay Awareness Week The Carolina Gay Association held its first Gay Awareness Week, a week of films, talks and workshops in the Carolina Union open to the public. Lambda set it against a Daily Tar Heel poll in which most of the 398 students surveyed opposed student funding for the association, and the defacement of its notice on the Cube. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), March 1978, p. 1
  4. The TALF-CGA Community Education Project begins sending outreach materials to other gay groups The joint community education project of the Triangle Area Lesbian Feminists and the Carolina Gay Association began offering other gay groups 12 packets of materials its speakers had prepared for talks to classes and other audiences. By that fall orders had come from as far as the University of New Hampshire. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), April 1978, p. 5
  5. The North Carolina Black Student Coalition takes up Black admissions at a Carolina Union press conference At a press conference in the Carolina Union, coalition president Byron Horton said qualified Black students were being refused across the state, citing Dean Renwick's figures, and announced research teams to check every UNC campus against the HEW desegregation goals. He said the coalition, formed in December 1977 and speaking for 14 schools and about 18,000 students, had intervened for the defense in Bostic v. Byrd, a reverse-discrimination suit against the UNC Law School, and would press for Black Studies programs on all campuses. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 6, 1978, p. 3
  6. Miss North Carolina Central crowns Miss BSM at the BSM Coronation Ball At the BSM's Coronation Ball in Great Hall, the reigning Miss North Carolina Central University crowned the new Miss BSM and spoke on the leadership role of campus queens, a former BSM chair received the Outstanding Black Senior award, and the Gospel Choir, Ebony Readers and Opeyo Dancers performed. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 27, 1978, p. 1
  7. The Carolina Gay Association holds its second Gay Awareness Week The Carolina Gay Association held its second Gay Awareness Week of films, talks and dialogues in the Carolina Union on gay rights, religion, race and bisexuality, ending with a weekend of workshops, a Halloween party and a picnic in Battle Park. The first had been held that March. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), November 1978, p. 1
  8. The BSM's Soul Disco Train fund-raiser fills Great Hall The BSM's Soul Disco Train, a takeoff on television's Soul Train co-sponsored by WXYC, drew the largest crowd of any Black student event in recent years and grossed over $400, enough for the BSM to make its $625 loan payment to student government on November 25. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), December 6, 1978, p. 5
  9. Zeta Phi Beta starts an undergraduate chapter at UNC Zeta Phi Beta Sorority started an undergraduate chapter at UNC, sponsored by its graduate chapter, joining Alpha Kappa Alpha and Delta Sigma Theta on campus. Its first four members gave a step show in Great Hall on November 18, 1978. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 5, 1979, p. 2
  10. The Carolina Gay Association holds its third Gay Awareness Week The week of workshops, films and nightly socials included a session where 60 people heard an Air Force captain describe his recent court-martial and dismissal, and a Saturday dance at the Newman Catholic Student Center that drew about 100. A Daily Tar Heel ad asking gay students to wear blue jeans on Friday drew a 'Heterosexual Pride Day' ad the next week. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), December 1979, p. 3
  11. The African and Afro-American Studies curriculum shows Portraits in Ebony at the Carolina Union The curriculum's photography exhibit Portraits in Ebony: Faces of the Black Community ran in the Carolina Union from November to December 7, as part of its cultural series Ayana '79-80. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), January 7, 1980, p. 8
  12. Kappa Alpha Psi roasts Dean Hayden B. Renwick in Great Hall Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity held a roast of Associate Dean Hayden B. Renwick in Great Hall, attended by more than 200 students, friends and relatives. BSM chairperson William Bynum praised him as UNC's first Black administrator, and the Opeyo Dancers performed. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), January 29, 1980, p. 1
  13. The Black Student Movement holds its 1980 Black Arts Festival The BSM's Black Arts Festival, coordinated by cultural coordinator Wanda Montgomery, included the first Freshman Bloc Show, which filled Great Hall with more than 300 people on March 22, an evening of dance with a Shaw University troupe, a gospel program and the touring Ain't Misbehavin'. Other events drew small crowds, and bookings were held up while the Campus Governing Council decided whether to fund the festival. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), April 7, 1980, p. 6
  14. The BSM's Ebony Readers-Onyx Theatre stages Day of Absence in whiteface The Black Student Movement's drama group performed Douglas Turner Ward's satire Day of Absence twice in Great Hall, with Black actors in whiteface. It was the first BSM drama production in a year. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), April 7, 1980, p. 6
  15. Dick Gregory closes the Black Arts Festival in Great Hall Comedian and activist Dick Gregory spoke to about 150 people in Great Hall as the last event of the Black Arts Festival, calling the nation spiritually and morally bankrupt. He told the BSM it needed more members and stronger leadership to be heard. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), April 7, 1980, p. 1
  16. UNC's Black fraternities and sororities hold Black Health Awareness Week The three Black fraternities and three Black sororities at UNC jointly held Black Health Awareness Week in the Carolina Union, with sickle cell screening on October 14 and blood pressure screening on October 15 in Great Hall. Their joint work led to talk of a Black Greek council. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 11, 1980, p. 1
  17. An Afro-American Studies panel weighs what the 1980 election means for Black Americans The Curriculum in African and Afro-American Studies held a panel in the Carolina Union on the election of Ronald Reagan and a conservative Congress. Washington Post city editor Milton Coleman and history professor Nell Painter spoke on what it could mean for Black Americans. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), December 2, 1980, p. 1
  18. Arthur Ashe talks to minority students about careers in Great Hall Retired tennis champion Arthur Ashe, then working for Aetna Life and Casualty, told 40 to 50 people in Great Hall that job chances for Black graduates had improved, and urged them to plan early, learn public speaking and Spanish. University Placement Services and student government sponsored the talk. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 24, 1981, p. 1
  19. Delta Sigma Theta holds a workshop on the Black woman at the Carolina Union The Kappa Omicron chapter of Delta Sigma Theta held 'The Black Woman: The Total Spectrum', with Jean Hutson of the Schomburg Center on the history of Black women in America, UNC English professor Trudier Harris on Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and a keynote by Helen R. Nunn of Memphis State University. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), March 31, 1981, p. 4
  20. Student government gives the Carolina Gay Association its first office Student Body President Scott Norberg assigned the association an office in the Carolina Union's new annex, its first office in six years as a recognized student group. Members moved in that August and, with donated money for a telephone, opened regular office hours. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), June 1981, p. 3
  21. A weekly self-defense class for gay men begins at the Carolina Union Nine gay men began weekly self-defense lessons in the Carolina Union, offered after the Little River attack that spring. The class, open to women and men, started a second session in October and was planned for the whole school year. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), October 1981, p. 9
  22. The Black Interdenominational Student Association holds its first worship service A new student religious group, the Black Interdenominational Student Association, began twice-monthly services in the Carolina Union with a sermon by Vice Chancellor Harold Wallace and music by the BSM choir. It became the second Black religious group on campus after the United Christian Fellowship. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), December 1, 1981, p. 1
  23. Black women at UNC hold the first Black Women's Unity Day Black women students, faculty and staff met in the Carolina Union auditorium for a Black Women's Unity Day, with Ebony Readers performances and a panel of student leaders and faculty. BSM vice chairperson Wende Watson organized the group of women leaders behind it; Black Ink called it the first program of its kind at UNC. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), December 1, 1981, p. 3
  24. UNC holds its first campus-wide Martin Luther King Jr. celebration Prezell Robinson, president of St. Augustine's College and the United Negro College Fund, told the gathering in Great Hall that the nation was pulling back from civil rights and that education was the surest way up. Chancellor Fordham accepted BSM chairperson Wende Watson's pledge to start a Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Fund for a junior committed to civil rights. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 11, 1982, p. 4
  25. Tony Brown keynotes the School of Social Work's third Black Experience Workshop Television journalist Tony Brown told a mostly Black audience at the open forum of the School of Social Work's third annual Black Experience Workshop that Black people must believe in themselves and keep Black colleges open. The workshop on communication followed on March 26 in the Carolina Union. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), April 13, 1982, p. 6
  26. The Carolina Gay Association's Gay Awareness Week ends with Blue Jeans Day The 1983 week offered nightly programs in the Carolina Union on coming out, gay life in the Triangle, spirituality and mental health, and closed on Friday with Blue Jeans Day, when supporters of gay rights were asked to wear jeans. The Daily Tar Heel carried letters in response to Blue Jeans Day. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), March 1983, p. 5
  27. The BSM and the placement office hold the third annual Minority Career Fair University Career Planning and Placement Services and the Black Student Movement held the third Minority Career Fair in the Carolina Union, with a panel on minorities at work, a BSM cultural program and recruiters from fifty companies, from the Peace Corps to IBM, in Great Hall. The fourth fair followed in Carmichael Auditorium in September 1984. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), September 8, 1983, p. 5 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, September 22, 1983, p. 3
  28. The North Carolina Lesbian and Gay Health Project gives its AIDS education program at UNC The Health Project, formed by people in Chapel Hill and Durham in 1982, presented its two-hour AIDS program of facts, theories and small-group discussion at a Carolina Gay Association meeting in the Carolina Union, among the first stops of a statewide tour. Bar benefits in Durham and Raleigh that month raised more than $1,000 for its AIDS work. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), November 1983, p. 4
  29. The council's Finance Committee recommends $10,000 for the BSM After rating six of nine BSM programs superior, among them the Opeyo Dancers, Gospel Choir, Black Ink and the King lecture, the Campus Governing Council's Finance Committee voted the BSM $10,000 for the next year, 15 percent less than before, while other groups lost 50 to 75 percent. The full council was to vote April 11. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), April 19, 1984, p. 3
  30. Three Black students hold the Campus Governing Council's top posts for the first time For the first time three Black students held leading posts on the Campus Governing Council: Reggie Holley as speaker, Wyatt Closs as speaker pro tem and a Black member as Finance Committee chair until she resigned. Former speaker James Exum said the BSM's funding rose when more Black members sat on the council. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), April 19, 1984, p. 6
  31. The Carolina Gay Association holds Gay Awareness Week on the theme Gay Visions of a New World The spring week opened with a coffeehouse in the Campus Y lounge and brought lectures by psychologist Lou Sawyer of Raleigh's Androgyny Center on lesbian issues, John Stanley of Raleigh's Black and White Men Together on racism among gay people, and the Rev. June Norris of St. John's Metropolitan Community Church on gays and religion. It ended with Blue Jeans Day and a Friday dance that doubled as a voter registration drive. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), April 1984, p. 1
  32. A planning committee for a Black Cultural Center holds its first meeting A Black Cultural Center Planning Committee, formed in April 1984 with the help of Vice Chancellor Donald Boulton and including BSM members, administrators and faculty, held its first meeting in the Carolina Union on April 19, 1984. It issued its first proposal for a center in 1985. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), August 31, 1992, p. 3
  33. Student government moves the Carolina Gay Association's office out of Suite D of the Carolina Union The administration of Student Body President Paul Parker moved the association from its larger office in Suite D to a small room, 230 Carolina Union, which members called a closet; Lambda described the move as an attempt to destroy the group. The association hoped in 1985 to win the Suite D office back. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), April 1985, p. 5
  34. The Carolina Gay Association holds a fall Gay Awareness Week with a talk by Tom Chorlton Moved to the fall, the week opened with Elizabeth Gurley of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays on coming out to parents, and Tom Chorlton of the National Association of Gay and Lesbian Democratic Clubs spoke on post-election strategy in Gerrard Hall on November 28. Programs by the N.C. Lesbian and Gay Health Project and Triangle Area Lesbian Feminists, a session on coming out in the Black community and a talk by the Rev. June Norris led to a Blue Jeans Day dance in Craige dormitory that drew nearly 150. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), November 1984, p. 1
  35. The Campus Governing Council votes to put BSM constitutional funding to a referendum By 13 to 8 the council passed the BSM's bill for constitutional funding, which would guarantee it 2.5 percent of student activity fees, about $12,000, and set up a board of directors with faculty and student members. The measure went to a student referendum in February 1985. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), December 7, 1984, p. 2
  36. The BSM holds Discovery, a day of Black History Month seminars, with Justice Henry Frye at the banquet Several hundred students and alumni attended the BSM's Discovery program in the Carolina Union, with seminars on the media, jobs, student leadership and apartheid led by speakers including state representative Mickey Michaux and WTVD anchor Miriam Thomas. N.C. Supreme Court Justice Henry Frye spoke at the Black Alumni Reunion banquet, a candlelight vigil in the Pit recalled the 1969 food workers' strike, and the BSM's readers and choir closed the day. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 28, 1985, p. 1
  37. Floyd McKissick speaks at Alpha Phi Alpha's King celebration in Great Hall Civil rights lawyer Floyd McKissick, former director of CORE, told more than 150 people at the Mu Zeta chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha's second annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration that Black Americans should become owners and producers in the economy. The program included an oratorical contest on the theme Why We Can't Wait and songs by the BSM Gospel Choir. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), January 28, 1986, p. 1
  38. The Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association holds its ninth Lesbian and Gay Awareness Week The week included a lunchtime workshop, Blacks and Gays: Breaking Down Barriers, at which speakers from the Triangle Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays, the association and the Black Student Movement addressed about 35 people, and a concert by the Common Woman Chorus. It closed with a Blue Jeans Dance in Upendo Lounge on April 11. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), April 1986, p. 12
  39. Vice Chancellor Boulton sets out a plan for a Black Cultural Center in the Carolina Union Meeting eight members of the Black Cultural Center Planning Committee on April 22, 1986, Vice Chancellor Donald A. Boulton gave an interim report on the proposal they had sent him on February 7. The center was to take about 1,500 square feet at the south end of the Union's first floor, with $13,000 for renovation and a three-year Student Affairs commitment to pay a director and secretary, and he asked Dean Gillian Cell to bring the College of Arts and Sciences into the planning. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), April 29, 1986, p. 1
  40. The BSM and the Black Greek Council hold Black Awareness Week Black Awareness Week brought the sixth Minority Career Fair to Great Hall on October 7, with about 60 companies; a program by the Ebony Readers, the BSM Gospel Choir and the Opeyo Dancers on October 8; a Black Greek Council step show that raised $1,600 for Shaw University; and on October 12 a talk on Black women's unity by journalism professor Regina Sherard at a reception of the three Black sororities. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 6, 1986, p. 6
  41. A Save Our Shaw talent show in Great Hall raises money for Shaw University On Halloween night students from UNC, N.C. State, Shaw, Fayetteville State and Winston-Salem State performed before about 200 people in Great Hall to raise money for financially troubled Shaw University in Raleigh. Sponsors were the BSM, Afro-American Studies, the Black Faculty Staff Caucus, the Friends of Black Children Community Council and history postdoctoral fellow Monica Green. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), December 2, 1986, p. 7
  42. The Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association holds its tenth annual Lesbian and Gay Awareness Week The association held its tenth annual Lesbian and Gay Awareness Week, which its outgoing co-chair called one of the best ever. Carolina Union committees staged Martin Sherman's play Bent, about the Nazi persecution of gay men, in Memorial Hall on April 6-8 in conjunction with the week. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), April 1987, p. 14
  43. The Black Greek Council's All Greek Step Show raises $2,700 for the United Negro College Fund The Black Greek Council's All Greek Step Show filled Great Hall and raised about $2,700 for the United Negro College Fund. It was the first time the council took part in Homecoming, with the Carolina Athletic Association. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 28, 1987, p. 7
  44. Filmmaker Robert Townsend appears at the BSM's Discovery '88 Opening the Black Filmmaking series of Discovery '88, the Black Student Movement's Black History Month program, the BSM and the Union Film Committee showed Robert Townsend's Hollywood Shuffle twice in the Union auditorium, and Townsend spoke and answered questions after each showing. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), April 20, 1988, p. 14
  45. UNC opens the Black Cultural Center in temporary space in the Carolina Union The university opened its Black Cultural Center as a new department in the Division of Student Affairs, in a small temporary space in the Carolina Union, with Margo Crawford, a former Afro-American history teacher at Northeastern Illinois University, as its first director. By early 1989 the center was running several programs a month and publishing a newsletter, Word. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), March 31, 1989, p. 8
  46. UNC holds a World AIDS Day fair in the Student Union UNC marked World AIDS Day with a fair in the Great Hall of the Student Union where more than 50 researchers, doctors, nurses, lawyers and public health workers from the Triangle discussed their work. The Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association staffed a booth and hung a tree in the Pit with 358 ribbons, one for each North Carolinian who had died of AIDS, out of 655 cases reported in the state. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), December 1988, p. 6
  47. The tenth Minority Career Fair draws a record crowd to Great Hall University Career Planning and Placement Services held its tenth annual Minority Career Fair in Great Hall, with more than 100 recruiters from 56 companies and record student attendance, including students from North Carolina Central. The fair had begun in 1981 with a few hundred students. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 22, 1990, p. 3
  48. Harry Allen of Public Enemy leads a Black Cultural Center discussion on hip-hop Harry Allen, the hip-hop activist and public relations director for Public Enemy, led a Black Cultural Center discussion on hip-hop culture and its ties to Africa in the Union auditorium, the first of two sessions with informal talks afterward at a Franklin Street coffeehouse. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 12, 1990, p. 7
  49. Black Ink begins publishing weekly Black Ink, the Black Student Movement's paper, brought out its first weekly issue after printing every two weeks earlier in the fall, with plans to stay weekly through May and to raise advertising to pay for it. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 12, 1990, p. 2
  50. Malikah Shabazz, Malcolm X's youngest daughter, comes to UNC for a Malcolm X conference "Understand the Man," a one-day conference commemorating the life of Malcolm X, was set for the Carolina Union on February 16 with workshops on Black Workers for Justice, myth and fact, Islam and a student forum, and with Malcolm X's youngest daughter as keynote speaker. A Black Ink column mentions a Malikah Shabazz event on the evening of February 15. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 18, 1991, p. 9
  51. Black Ink publishes a record 19th issue in one school year With its March 25 issue, its 19th of the 1990-91 year after it became a weekly that fall, Black Ink broke a record of 18 issues in a year that had stood since 1974. The editors credited assistant dean Sibby Anderson-Thompkins with helping find the money for the final issue. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), March 25, 1991, p. 2
  52. 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. The schedule also listed a salute to Stone by Amiri Baraka in the Hanes Art Center on August 28 and a memorial celebration in Memorial Hall on September 5. People: Sonja Haynes Stone Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), August 26, 1991, p. 8
  53. The BSM keeps Black Cultural Center programs in the center's cramped Union office to press for a building To show that the Black Cultural Center, opened three years earlier in the Student Union as a temporary space, was really an office seating about 25, the Black Student Movement asked director Margo Crawford to hold all center programs there. The university's 1991 Guide to Physical Development left a center building in Category III, and Vice Chancellor Donald Boulton said Chancellor Hardin had made no decision on any freestanding building, though Hardin seemed to support renaming the center for Sonja Stone. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 1, 1991, p. 5
  54. Haki Madhubuti lectures at the Black Cultural Center Poet and Third World Press publisher Haki Madhubuti spoke on power, politics and leadership at the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center, presented by the center and the Black Student Movement. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 18, 1992, p. 11
  55. The Black Cultural Center starts Communiversity, a Saturday school for local children The Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center began Communiversity, a Saturday program run by students and community volunteers to teach local Black children about African and African American heritage. Its pilot sessions were held in spring 1992. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), March 24, 1992, p. 4
  56. UNC holds the naming ceremony for the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center More than 120 people crowded the center's room in the Student Union for its official naming for the late professor Sonja Haynes Stone. Speakers included education professor Frank Brown, Stone's pastor Lorenzo Lynch of White Rock Baptist Church in Durham and Deloris Jordan, and Chancellor Paul Hardin said the center would keep Stone's name wherever it went, while student speakers pressed for a freestanding building. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), March 31, 1992, p. 3
  57. Chancellor Hardin proposes clearing the back of the Carolina Union for the Black Cultural Center Over the summer of 1992 the administration offered a plan to clear and renovate space at the rear of the Carolina Union for the Black Cultural Center, moving The Daily Tar Heel and Yackety Yack offices to new space above Daniels Bookstore or Chase Hall. Coalition members rejected it and pledged to pay for a separate building with outside money. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), August 31, 1992, p. 6
  58. The Black Cultural Center wins a Z. Smith Reynolds grant for its Cross Cultural Communications Institute Over the summer of 1992 the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center received a Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation grant to make its cross-cultural communication workshops a standing, student-run Cross Cultural Communications Institute. Its first six-week session ran from October 5 to November 16, 1992. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 5, 1992, p. 7
  59. Student Congress votes 13 to 8 to back a freestanding Black Cultural Center Student Congress voted 13 to 8 in support of a freestanding Black Cultural Center in early September 1992. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 5, 1992, p. 18
  60. A Journey Through Blackness cultural expo fills Great Hall The Carolina Union Activities Board's Special Projects Committee held A Journey Through Blackness in Great Hall, with African dance by Afro II, the BSM Gospel Choir, the Ebony Readers, a song and monologue program by alumnus Sam Irving and the North Carolina Central University Dance Troupe. About 200 people of several races attended the first of a planned series of cultural expos. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 5, 1992, p. 5
  61. Gerald Horne becomes director of the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center Historian Gerald Horne of the University of California at Santa Barbara took over the center at the start of 1996, succeeding Margo Crawford, after an 18-member search committee chose him and the provost offered him the post in August 1995. His main charge was raising the rest of the money for a freestanding building. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 19, 1996, p. 6
  62. B-GLAD protests the cancellation of the Define: Queer art exhibit B-GLAD protested after the Carolina Union Activities Board canceled the art exhibit Define: Queer at the last minute. A B-GLAD co-chair wrote in 1998 that it was the group's only protest action in three years. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), October 1998, p. 8
  63. Night of the Divas brings the first drag show to campus during Celebration Week As part of B-GLAD's Celebration Week, Night of the Divas filled the Carolina Union auditorium with four professional drag performers from across North Carolina, followed by a question-and-answer session; Lambda called it the first drag show held on campus. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), May 1998, p. 7
  64. Joseph Jordan becomes director of the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center Joseph Jordan, former head of Atlanta's Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture, was appointed director of the center, succeeding Harry Amana, a journalism professor who had served as interim director since 1999. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 2001, p. 4
  65. The UNC Gospel Choir marks its 30th anniversary with a concert in Great Hall The Black Student Movement's Gospel Choir, founded about 1971, gave its 30th anniversary concert to a packed Great Hall on homecoming weekend, with alumni including a founding member in the audience. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), December 2001, p. 8
  66. Photographer Loren Cameron presents his portraits of transgender people Photographer Loren Cameron showed 80 slides from ten years of portraits of transgender people in the Student Union and used them to talk about transgender lives and common misconceptions. His work included the 1996 book Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), April 2004, p. 5
  67. The GLBT-SA's drag show Curious opens Celebration Week The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender - Straight Alliance opened Celebration Week with Curious, a drag show in the Great Hall with four professional drag queens, amateur performers and a local drag king troupe, which drew more than 400 people and raised an estimated $1,800. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), June 2004, p. 4
  68. The GLBT-SA's second Curious drag show fills the Great Hall The second Curious drag show, with professional and student drag queens and kings and the MiscONcEptions dance troupe, drew more than 500 students and faculty to the Student Union's Great Hall on National Coming Out Day. The evening included a preview of a campus production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), October 2004, p. 13
  69. The GLBT-SA holds its first Ally Week The GLBT-Straight Alliance held its first Ally Week to thank and educate straight allies. It opened outside the Student Union with speeches by Vice Chancellor Peggy Jablonski and Professor Chuck Stone and a statement from Dean Bernadette Gray-Little, and closed on February 7 with a talk by former United Methodist minister Jimmy Creech. People: Chuck Stone, Bernadette Gray-Little Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), February 2005, p. 4
  70. Faculty and students hold Read Free, a 24-hour read-in of queer literature at the Student Union University and community members read, sang and performed queer-themed literature in front of the Frank Porter Graham Student Union for 24 hours, from noon on a Monday to noon the next day. The read-in answered an Alabama bill to ban public school and university materials that "promote homosexuality." Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), April 2005, p. 2
  71. The GLBT-SA plans its third Unity Conference, widened to the whole Southeast Lambda announced the GLBT-SA's third annual Unity Conference, "Queerniversity: Testing Your LGBT-IQ," for April 1-3, 2005, widened from North Carolina to the whole Southeast, with 18 workshops, a Queer Bash dance in the Great Hall and a keynote by Suzanne Pharr, author of Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism. Danny Roberts and Mandy Carter were to lead workshops. No report of the conference itself has been found in the papers read. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), February 2005, p. 12
  72. Biologist Joan Roughgarden lectures on sexual diversity in nature in the Great Hall Stanford biologist Joan Roughgarden spoke in the Student Union's Great Hall on her book Evolution's Rainbow, which challenges Darwin's theory of sexual selection. English professor Tyler Curtain and sociology professor Francois Nielsen responded, and discussion touched on the recent Franklin Street attack. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), May 2005, p. 12
  73. The GLBT-SA's drag show Body Language closes Celebration Week in a sold-out Great Hall The GLBT-Straight Alliance's drag show, now held twice a year, ran more than three hours before a sold-out Great Hall, with author Inga Muscio among the guest hosts and a professional drag king troupe on the bill alongside student performers. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), May 2005, p. 5
  74. Judy Shepard speaks against hate to a packed Great Hall Judy Shepard, mother of Matthew Shepard, the University of Wyoming student murdered in 1998, told more than 400 students, faculty and residents in the Great Hall that the country must be more accepting and that hate is learned. The LGBTQ Office and the GLBT-SA brought her with nearly 30 campus groups and a Carolina Parents Council grant. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), March 2007, p. 4
  75. The GLBT-SA endorses Eve Carson at its student body president forum At its annual forum for student body president candidates, all four of whom backed adding gender identity to the nondiscrimination policy, the GLBT-Straight Alliance endorsed Eve Carson. She went on to win the election; Lambda noted that this time the group's endorsed candidate had won. People: Eve Carson Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), March 2007, p. 6

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Surveys and maps of the area

Not about Carolina Union alone: the architectural surveys that cover its town or the county, and maps drawn while it stood. Several of the surveys can be read free online at NC Digital Collections.

The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, North Carolina: 1795-1975

Little-Stokes, Margaret Ruth · 2006

Margaret Ruth Little-Stokes's survey of Chapel Hill's town and campus buildings from 1795 to 1975, published by the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill in 2006. Chapters run from the first campus buildings through David Swain's romantic campus to midcentury modernism, followed by area surveys of the campus, east and west Chapel Hill, downtown, Northside and the suburbs.

Included because: A survey or map of the town or county where the site stands.

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The town and gown architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975

Little, M. Ruth · 2004 · Preservation Society of Chapel Hill

M. Ruth Little's 2004 architectural history of Chapel Hill and the university campus from 1795 to 1975, written for the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill. A 99-page survey with a bibliography.

Included because: A survey or map of the town or county where the site stands.

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Chapel Hill historic sites survey : final report.

Gatza, M. B. · 1992 · Chapel Hill Planning Department

M. B. Gatza's final report of the 1992 Chapel Hill historic sites survey for the town Planning Department, with contributions by Beverly C. Kawalec and Catherine Bishir. It covers historic buildings and districts in Chapel Hill in 80 pages.

Included because: A survey or map of the town or county where the site stands.

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    Where to look on the shelf

    These books don’t necessarily mention Carolina Union, but they cover where it stands, its kind of building and the land, family and burial records behind it, and they are where a search for a place like this usually goes next. All are at OCPL, most in the Wall Collection.

    Histories of the town and county

    • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 975.656 STO Chapel Hill: A Pictorial History Stolpen, Steven · 1978

      Steven Stolpen's pictorial history of Chapel Hill, one of the Donning Company's photographic town histories, published in Norfolk, Virginia in 1978. Photographs and portraits carry the story of the town and the university, including references to Thomas Wolfe's years as a student at Carolina. 156 pages with illustrations.

    • Foundational · 975.656 RYAN Orange County Trio: Hillsborough, Chapel Hill, and Carrboro, North Carolina, Histories and Tour Guides Ryan, Elizabeth Shreve · 2004

      Elizabeth Shreve Ryan's combined histories and tour guides for Hillsborough, Chapel Hill and Carrboro, the three towns of Orange County, with the University of North Carolina treated alongside Chapel Hill. Each town gets a narrative history and a tour of its streets and buildings. Published by Chapel Hill Press in 2004, 369 pages with illustrations and maps.

    Buildings and surveys

    • Foundational · NC 720.975 BIS A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont North Carolina Bishir, Catherine W. · 2003

      Catherine W. Bishir and Michael T. Southern's field guide to the historic buildings of the North Carolina Piedmont, arranged county by county from Wake and Franklin in the east to Mecklenburg and Gaston in the west. The Orange County section takes in Hillsborough, Chapel Hill and Carrboro along with the rural county, with entries on individual buildings and maps for finding them. Published 2003, 596 pages with illustrations and maps.

    • Foundational · NC 917.56 HIS Historic Buildings and Landmarks of Chapel Hill, N.C Chapel Hill Historical Society · 1973

      A pocket-sized guide to the historic buildings and landmarks of Chapel Hill, prepared by the Chapel Hill Historical Society and printed by Creative Printers in 1973. Forty pages with illustrations and maps, 14 by 22 cm. Topics include architecture, historic buildings and historic districts in Chapel Hill, and the guide is useful for a walking tour of the older parts of town.

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