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Sonja Haynes Stone Center (Black Cultural Center)

The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History is the freestanding building in Coker Woods on the UNC campus that opened in August 2004, after more than a decade of campaigning by students, faculty and Black athletes that began when Stone died in 1991 and included a 1993 sit-in in South Building.

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Books, articles, records, and images about Sonja Haynes Stone Center. Each has been reviewed for relevance; materials held at OCPL appear first.

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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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Icons of Power and Landscapes of Protest

Roseboro, Donyell L. · 2005

Donyell L. Roseboro's 2005 doctoral dissertation on the student movement for the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It examines African American student activism and student organizations on the Chapel Hill campus. A typescript of 307 leaves with illustrations, distributed through UMI.

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The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History : the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Office of University Development · 2003 · Office of University Development

A promotional sheet on the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, issued in 2003 by the Office of University Development at Chapel Hill. One folded sheet of three unnumbered pages with illustrations, 28 by 44 centimeters. Topics include the center itself and the buildings of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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The Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center.

1993

A 1993 report on the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center at Chapel Hill, based on the deliberations of the Black Cultural Center Working Group and the center's advisory board, with the endorsement of the working group alone. Twenty three pages and twelve unnumbered leaves, including a folded map. Topics include African American college students in Chapel Hill and university buildings.

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Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film : our diaspora : where every life is an epic story

Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film (2017 : Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History) · 2017 · UNC, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History

Program calendar for the 2017 Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film, presented in the fall by the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at Chapel Hill and tied to the campus Arts Everywhere initiative. Topics include film festivals in Chapel Hill and Black people in the motion picture industry, so the leaflet records what the festival screened that season.

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20th anniversary of the historic UNC housekeepers' agreement.

2016 · The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History

Commemorative booklet from the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History marking twenty years since the UNC housekeepers' agreement. Sixteen unnumbered pages with illustrations, facsimiles and portraits, published at Chapel Hill in 2016. Topics include the UNC Housekeepers Association, labor unions among housekeepers, and discrimination in employment at the university.

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Milestones

Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center · 2004 · Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center

Milestones is the newsletter of the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published by the center and dated 2004. African American students in Chapel Hill and the center itself are its subject. As a serial it carries programs, speakers and news of Black student life on campus.

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Program guide

2004 · Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center

The program guide of the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center at Chapel Hill, issued in illustrated volumes and recorded from 2004, with the 2000 to 2001 issue lacking that title.It concerns African American students and their societies and clubs. Volumes range from 18 to 26 cm.

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Sauti mpya : the literary magazine of The Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center.

2004 · The Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center

Literary magazine of the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published from 2004. Topics include American literature by African American authors in North Carolina and student periodicals in Chapel Hill, so the issues carry student poetry and prose. Volumes with illustrations, 22 to 28 cm.

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The Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center : the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center · 1994 · The Center

A sixteen page illustrated booklet on the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, issued by the center in 1994. Topics include African American college students in Chapel Hill, their societies and clubs and the services provided for them. Twenty two centimeters, printed by the center itself.

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Milestones

Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History · UNC Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History

Serial publication of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, issued by the center itself. It is a periodical about the center and about African American students at Chapel Hill, so the issues serve anyone following Black student life and programming on that campus.

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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.

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Word : Black Cultural Center newsletter

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Black Cultural Center · 1994 · Black Cultural Center, Division of Student Affairs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Newsletter of the Black Cultural Center in the Division of Student Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published in Chapel Hill and entered here at 1994. The work deals with student periodicals and with African American college students in Chapel Hill.

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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.

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Sonja Hayes Center (Chapel Hill Historical Society vertical file)

Promotional material from the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at the University of North Carolina, labeled Sonja Hayes Center on the folder. Undated, from the Chapel Hill Historical Society's vertical files.

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Surveys and maps of the area

Not about Sonja Haynes Stone Center 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.

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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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

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.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, North Carolina at 5-Year Intervals, 1793-1998

Bryant, Bernard Lee · 1999 · Chapel Hill Historical Society

Bernard Lee Bryant's compilation of who occupied each structure on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill at five-year intervals from 1793 to 1998, issued by the Chapel Hill Historical Society in 1999 as a photocopy of his original computer printout on cotton paper. 191 leaves.

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    Where to look on the shelf

    These books don’t necessarily mention Sonja Haynes Stone Center, 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.

    In the chronology

    Storyline about this site, with a page of its own:

    1. 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
    2. 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 The Daily Tar Heel, October 7, 1985, p. 3
    3. Carolina Union moves its vending machines to reserve space for a Black Cultural Center As part of a $150,000 remodeling of the Student Union, the first-floor vending machines were moved into the old Fastbreak area to reserve their space for the Black Cultural Center, Union director Howard Henry said. The remodeling, due by the end of the spring 1986 term, also planned a cabaret with a non-alcoholic bar ahead of the rise in the drinking age. The Daily Tar Heel, November 14, 1985, p. 1
    4. UNC Student Affairs reserves Union space and start-up money for a Black Cultural Center Vice Chancellor Donald A. Boulton said in a December interview that his office had set aside start-up money for a director, a secretary and supplies and about 1,500 square feet of Student Union space, where vending machines had stood, should the Black Cultural Center committee's proposal call for a center. BSM President Sibby Anderson and other members of the committee, formed in April 1984, doubted the commitment, since their draft described a much larger center. The Daily Tar Heel, January 24, 1986, p. 1
    5. The Black Cultural Center steering committee meets to finish its proposal After about 21 months of work the steering committee met to finalize its proposal for a permanent center for the study and preservation of Black culture, with a library, performing arts space and room for resident artists. The Black Student Movement's president later wrote that the plan for a building of about $750,000 shrank to a small lounge in the student union. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), September 4, 1990, p. 6 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, January 27, 1986, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, February 3, 1986, p. 1
    6. 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
    7. Black Cultural Center planners approve a floor plan for space in the Carolina Union UNC's Black Cultural Center planning committee met to discuss a consultant's report by William Jones of Florida State University and approved a floor plan for the center across from the Union's TV lounge. Jones warned that without support from the wider administration the University's response could be seen as trivializing the proposal; workers had begun walling off the space the week before. The Daily Tar Heel, January 23, 1987, p. 1
    8. The Black Cultural Center planning committee begins a national search for a director The planning committee for the Black Cultural Center, faculty and Black Student Movement members among them, met to start recruiting a director through a national advertising campaign, with Vice Chancellor Donald Boulton forming a search committee. The director was to take office July 1, 1988, when work on the center's space beside the Carolina Union's west TV lounge was to begin; meanwhile the committee would furnish the space by spring. The Daily Tar Heel, October 9, 1987, p. 3
    9. Sonja Stone speaks at a pre-opening of the Black Cultural Center in the Student Union About 60 students gathered in the part of the Student Union set aside for the Black Cultural Center for its pre-opening, where Sonja Stone, associate professor of African and Afro-American studies, spoke on Black students as heirs to and founders of Afro-American culture. The center's programming committee was taking applications for a director, to be chosen in May, and the center was to open officially in July when the director took charge. The Daily Tar Heel, October 29, 1987, p. 3
    10. UNC spends $25,000 furnishing the Black Cultural Center and interviews for its director Responding to BSM president Kenneth Perry, Vice Chancellor Donald Boulton said the University had spent $25,000 to furnish the Black Cultural Center, had ordered furniture and had interviewed five of six candidates for director, who was to be hired by April 15. The Daily Tar Heel, March 18, 1988, p. 1
    11. Margo Crawford is named the first director of UNC's Black Cultural Center UNC named Margo Crawford of Chicago, chosen from 60 applicants by a search committee under associate vice chancellor Edith Wiggins, the first director of the Black Cultural Center, to start July 1. Crawford, a former assistant professor of Afro-American studies at Northeastern Illinois University then working at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, said trustees chairman Bob Eubanks wanted the center to become the leading collegiate center in the nation; the planning committee meant to move it from its temporary Union space to a larger site. The Daily Tar Heel, April 19, 1988, p. 1
    12. Margo Crawford begins work as director of the Black Cultural Center Margo Crawford started work in July as director of UNC's new Black Cultural Center, housed for the time in the Carolina Union with $73,000 budgeted for its first year of programs and operations. In September the Black Student Movement pressed for the permanent building and lasting budget its proposal had asked for. The Daily Tar Heel, September 8, 1988, p. 4
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    1. UNC formally opens the Black Cultural Center in the Carolina Union under its first director On July 1, 1988 the Black Cultural Center became a department in the Division of Student Affairs, and Margo Crawford, a former Afro-American history teacher at Northeastern Illinois University, took office as its first director. The center had used a small space on the Carolina Union's first floor since a pre-opening in October 1987, run by a programming committee while the director's post was vacant. By early 1989 it was running several programs a month and publishing a newsletter, Word. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), March 31, 1989, p. 8 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, February 12, 1988, p. 3
    2. The BSM sets deadlines for a permanent Black Cultural Center Fearing the temporary space in the Union would become permanent, the Black Student Movement under president Kenneth Perry passed a resolution calling on the university to choose a permanent site for the Black Cultural Center by January 31, 1989 and begin construction by January 31, 1990. In December 1988 the BSM rejected another interim location. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), September 4, 1990, p. 7
    3. C. Eric Lincoln opens the Black Cultural Center's Monday night lecture series Duke professor of religion C. Eric Lincoln gave the first talk in the Black Cultural Center's new Monday Night Black Culture Lecture Series, telling about 200 people in Memorial Hall that America had denied Black people the opportunities it gave whites and reading from his poetry. BCC director Margo Crawford said the monthly series was meant as a bank of knowledge about Black culture and that the center had waited so that Lincoln, whom she called the first Black student at UNC, could open it. The Daily Tar Heel, October 25, 1988, p. 1
    4. The athletic department gives the Black Cultural Center $15,000 UNC's Department of Athletics gave $15,000 to the Black Cultural Center, which athletic director John Swofford said shared the department's goal of better racial understanding. People: John Swofford Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), December 5, 1988, p. 2
    5. Trustee John Pope questions the need for a Black Cultural Center UNC trustee John Pope questioned the need for a Black Cultural Center and, in a Chapel Hill Herald article of October 28, said it might push the races further apart. A Daily Tar Heel editorial put his remark at the trustees' Academic and Student Affairs Committee on Thursday, October 27, 1988, where, after director Margo Crawford's presentation, he suggested that students who wanted such a center might attend a Black university. Black Ink reported that Pope left the December 9 trustees' meeting before its 11-0 vote supporting the center. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 9, 1989, p. 6 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 31, 1988, p. 10
    6. Black Cultural Center planning committee endorses the BSM's proposal for a permanent center The Black Cultural Center Facilities Planning Committee endorsed the Black Student Movement's proposal for a permanent center of up to 13,000 square feet, larger than the 8,548 square feet sought in a February 1986 proposal, to serve as a focal point for Black cultural expression, a tool for recruiting and keeping minority students and a link to the surrounding community. Vice Chancellor Donald Boulton was to take the recommendation to the trustees on Dec. 9. The Daily Tar Heel, November 11, 1988, p. 1
    7. The Black Cultural Center honors Pauli Murray at the Chapel of the Cross On her birthday the Black Cultural Center held a tribute to Pauli Murray at the Chapel of the Cross, where about 80 people heard friends recall her and read her poetry. Speakers included Phillips Junior High teacher Lee Kessler, who helped get Proud Shoes reissued, and Floyd McKissick, the first Black student admitted to the UNC law school. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), December 5, 1988, p. 4
    8. Black Student Movement votes not to seek interim space for the Black Cultural Center At a general body meeting on November 30, 1988, Black Student Movement members voted not to ask University officials for interim space for the Black Cultural Center, fearing a larger temporary site could stand in for a permanent one, and to press instead for a permanent location. BSM president Kenneth Perry also reported that only 12 of 269 Black students answered all seven questions on a November 17 BSM survey about the movement and the center correctly. The Daily Tar Heel, December 1, 1988, p. 1
    9. UNC trustees pass a resolution supporting the Black Cultural Center The Board of Trustees voted 11 to 0 to recognize the successful beginning of the Black Cultural Center and encouraged its Facility Planning Committee to plan adequate space. In 1992 the BSM president held up the resolution against the chancellor's refusal of a freestanding building. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 18, 1992, p. 10
    10. Planners release a feasibility study for a permanent Black Cultural Center The Black Cultural Center planning committee released a feasibility study for a permanent 23,000-square-foot center with an art gallery, library and media room, at a projected cost of about $3 million. Options discussed included renovating Howell Hall, expanding the Union or building a freestanding center. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), September 4, 1990, p. 7 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 31, 1989, p. 8; The Daily Tar Heel, February 2, 1990, p. 1
    11. A Black Cultural Center program drafts race-relations proposals, including a monument to balance Silent Sam At "Racism: Our common bondage," a program of the Black Cultural Center and the Chapel of the Cross, six mixed groups of students, faculty, staff and residents who had met weekly for about six weeks compiled recommendations for Chancellor Paul Hardin. They included housing all freshmen in one area to end the concentration of Black students on South Campus, more race-relations study in the curriculum, a required non-Western culture course and a monument to a prominent Black alumnus to balance the Silent Sam statue. The Daily Tar Heel, November 20, 1989, p. 3
    12. The Faculty Council asks for a new Black Cultural Center building and a minority faculty task force At its monthly meeting the Faculty Council passed resolutions asking the University to set goals for recruiting and keeping African-American and Native American faculty, administrators and students and to commit funds to build a new facility for the Black Cultural Center. Chancellor Paul Hardin said he would form a task force on minority faculty hiring; the committee report counted 54 Black faculty members, 2.5 percent of the faculty, and no Native Americans in permanent posts. The Daily Tar Heel, March 26, 1990, p. 1
    13. 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
    14. Afro-One starts a Chapel Hill class under the Black Cultural Center's artist-in-residence program Black Cultural Center director Margo Crawford arranged a Chapel Hill chapter of Afro-One, the West African dance, drama and drum company Patricia Reid-Bookhart had founded in Willingboro, New Jersey. Taught by a student who had trained with the company, the class of about fifteen met twice a week in the basement of Teague Residence Hall and prepared to dance at the 1990 Kwanzaa. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 19, 1990, p. 3 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, September 27, 1991, p. 5
    15. The BSM's Umoja series takes up the need for a Black Cultural Center The third Umoja program of the year, part of a Black Student Movement series meant to build unity among Black students, faculty and staff, was given to the case for a real Black Cultural Center. Director Margo Crawford, also co-chair of the National Association of Black Cultural Centers, argued that the center should be a place where anyone could learn about Black culture, and Black Ink contrasted that goal with a mere "Black Cultural Closet." Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 19, 1990, p. 11
    16. 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 UNC 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
    17. The BSM publishes ten points of contention with the university The Black Student Movement listed its grievances: no permanent Black Cultural Center after a decade of promises, African and Afro-American Studies still a curriculum rather than a department, an empty commitment to recruiting and keeping Black faculty, discriminatory treatment of employees, low Black retention and graduation, The Student Body statue, too little support for the AHANA academic affairs office, and the university's refusal to tie hate crimes to campus racial tension. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), January 14, 1991, p. 11
    18. The Black Cultural Center presents a Soul Expression concert in Memorial Hall The Black Cultural Center's Soul Expression concert, "Jazzing It Up in Style," featured student vocalists and a flutist with a special appearance by the group Explosion, for $3 admission. A Black Ink columnist reported a small crowd, partly because a Malikah Shabazz event was held the same evening. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 11, 1991, p. 8 · Also: Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 18, 1991, p. 9
    19. 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 Black 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
    20. Student leaders dedicate scholarships to Sonja Haynes Stone and call for renaming the Black Cultural Center At a news conference in the series honoring the late professor Sonja Haynes Stone, Student Body Vice President Meridith Rentz said student government would dedicate the Student Body Scholarship Fund, more than $20,000 a year from a fee students approved in 1990, to Stone's memory, and Black Student Movement President Arnie Epps said the BSM would seek to rename the Black Cultural Center the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center and raise money for an endowed chair in her name. The Daily Tar Heel, August 27, 1991, p. 1
    21. 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
    22. Chancellor Hardin agrees to ask trustees to rename the Black Cultural Center for Sonja Stone At a September 9, 1991, meeting of UNC administrators and the Dr. Sonja H. Stone Task Force, it was decided that Chancellor Paul Hardin would propose renaming the Black Cultural Center for Sonja Haynes Stone at the trustees' October meeting. It met one of the three demands students had carried to South Building the week before; BSM President Arnie Epps called it a sign that Hardin was listening. The Daily Tar Heel, September 11, 1991, p. 1
    23. 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 Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 28, 1991, p. 8
    24. 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 Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 28, 1991, p. 5
    25. The Friends of the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center hold a memorial luncheon to press for a freestanding center Guests including Duke professor C. Eric Lincoln, state Supreme Court Justice Henry Frye, UNC Board of Governors member Asa Spaulding and Stone's parents remembered the late professor and called for a permanent, freestanding Black Cultural Center in her honor. Center director Margo Crawford said the luncheon was the first of a series the group would hold on establishing such a building; the renamed center was then housed in the Student Union. The Daily Tar Heel, November 19, 1991, p. 3
    26. The Black Cultural Center starts Communiversity, a Saturday school for local children The Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center, with Sigma Gamma Rho sorority, began Communiversity, a ten-week Saturday program run by students and community volunteers to teach Black children aged 8 to 12 from Chapel Hill and Carrboro public housing about African and African American heritage. The pilot sessions were scheduled from January 18 to April 11, 1992. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), March 24, 1992, p. 4 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, January 14, 1992, p. 2
    27. UNC sets aside $500,000 to renovate an existing building for the Black Cultural Center The university announced that $500,000 from its bicentennial would go toward renovating an existing building for the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center. Students seeking a freestanding center were dissatisfied. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 18, 1992, p. 3
    28. 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
    29. Student coalition presents demands to Chancellor Hardin for a freestanding Black Cultural Center A coalition of the Black Student Movement, the Campus Y and student government sent Chancellor Paul Hardin demands for a freestanding Black Cultural Center, higher pay for the housekeepers and an endowed chair for the late Sonja Haynes Stone, with a March 11 deadline. Hardin and Dean of Student Affairs Donald Boulton met coalition leaders, among them BSM president Amie Epps, on February 27. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), March 31, 1992, p. 8
    30. Students rally at South Building for the Black Cultural Center, the housekeepers and a Stone chair At 12:15 p.m. on March 12, 1992, students rallied in front of South Building for the housekeepers, an endowed chair honoring Sonja Haynes Stone and a freestanding Black Cultural Center. A Black Ink writer complained that most of the crowd was not Black. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), March 31, 1992, p. 4
    31. Chancellor Hardin says he does not support a freestanding Black Cultural Center In a public statement answering the coalition, Chancellor Paul Hardin said he opposed a freestanding center, calling for a forum rather than a fortress, and asked Dean Donald Boulton to form a working group on the center's space, with short-term space possibly in Chase. He urged students to raise the $500,000 set aside in the Bicentennial campaign and said UNC already started housekeepers 5 percent above the standard state entry wage and could legally do no more. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), March 31, 1992, p. 8 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, February 6, 1992, p. 1
    32. A faculty committee asks Hardin to fund a complete Black Cultural Center At the Faculty Council meeting, the Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Minorities and the Disadvantaged, chaired by David Eckerman, urged Chancellor Paul Hardin and the faculty to provide resources for 'a real, complete and excellent' black cultural center. Hardin asked faculty members to talk with the student leaders of the campaign, and a motion to rename the center for African-American culture was withdrawn after debate. The Daily Tar Heel, March 23, 1992, p. 1
    33. 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
    34. The Faculty Council debates a freestanding Black Cultural Center At Chancellor Paul Hardin's invitation the council discussed his March 17 statement favoring a multicultural center. Professors Richard Soloway and Michael Salemi warned of de facto segregation, Chuck Stone named more than ten universities with freestanding Black cultural centers, and Hardin again suggested a center in the Student Union or the Frank Daniels Building paid for by a small student fee increase and gifts, including support pledged by Deloris Jordan. People: Chuck Stone The Daily Tar Heel, April 13, 1992, p. 1
    35. Alpha Phi Alpha gives $750 toward a free-standing Black Cultural Center The Mu Zeta chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha gave the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center $750 from its step show proceeds for programs and a start on a free-standing building; BCC board chairman Harold Wallace said he no longer believed the University should play the major role in raising the money. The Daily Tar Heel, April 21, 1992, p. 3
    36. The Black Cultural Center holds a reception for alumnus Randall Kenan UNC's Black Cultural Center held a reception for Kenan, a 1985 graduate, on the publication of his story collection Let the Dead Bury Their Dead; the Bull's Head Bookshop held an autograph party for the book the same day. The Daily Tar Heel, April 22, 1992, p. 1
    37. Chancellor Hardin proposes a student fee vote for a larger Black Cultural Center and agrees with the coalition to form a planning group In an emotional meeting of several hours with the coalition seeking a free-standing Black Cultural Center, Chancellor Paul Hardin defended his civil rights record, repeated his opposition to a new building and proposed that student government hold a referendum on a new student fee to pay for a larger center within an expanded Student Union. Center director Margo Crawford, vice chancellor Harold Wallace and associate vice chancellor Edith Wiggins urged him to commit to a separate building. The two sides agreed to form a group of University planners and coalition members to draw three or four sets of plans. The Daily Tar Heel, June 25, 1992, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, July 2, 1992, p. 1
    38. The Black Cultural Center coalition holds speak-outs and a symbolic groundbreaking During the second summer session of 1992, the Coalition for a Free-Standing Black Cultural Center held two speak-outs on the center and on racism at UNC, a Black Cultural Expo and a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for the building. The new Black Awareness Council helped the Sonja Haynes Stone Task Force run the speak-outs. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), August 31, 1992, p. 6
    39. The Black Cultural Center planning committee breaks up when students ask for a written commitment In late July 1992 the committee that Vice Chancellor Donald Boulton had proposed to draw plans for a new Black Cultural Center broke up after student leaders asked for a letter from Chancellor Hardin promising that a freestanding center would be built. Boulton said he could not give that promise; students said they would not plan a building no one was raising money for. The Daily Tar Heel, August 26, 1992, p. 1
    40. Black Cultural Center supporters confront UNC President C. D. Spangler in Lenoir Hall On July 21, 1992, about 12 students, some from the Black Awareness Council, approached UNC system President C. D. Spangler after lunch in Lenoir Hall and argued for a freestanding Black Cultural Center for about an hour; Spangler said space and programs could be bought but a separate building was a harder case. People: C. D. Spangler Jr. The Daily Tar Heel, July 23, 1992, p. 1
    41. 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 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, February 28, 1992, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, March 10, 1992, p. 3
    42. Deloris Jordan says the Michael Jordan Foundation will pay for a freestanding Black Cultural Center In the week of August 17, 1992, Deloris Jordan, mother of former UNC basketball player Michael Jordan, said the foundation bearing her son's name would give the money needed to build a freestanding Black Cultural Center and that she would come to campus to discuss it with students. UNC officials said they had not received any notice of the gift. The Daily Tar Heel, August 26, 1992, p. 23
    43. 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
    44. B-GLAD joins the campaign for a freestanding Black Cultural Center B-GLAD joined the Black Student Movement and other groups in the campaign for a freestanding Black Cultural Center on campus. Its co-chair wrote that the group opposed discrimination in all forms and hoped joining would also win allies for B-GLAD. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), January 1993, p. 11 · Also: Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 5, 1992, p. 5
    45. 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
    46. Almost 300 students march at night to Chancellor Hardin's house for a freestanding Black Cultural Center After a speak-out in the Pit on September 3, 1992, about thirty students still there gathered a crowd for an impromptu march to Chancellor Paul Hardin's Country Club Road house at 11:20 p.m. to demand a freestanding Black Cultural Center; Hardin was out of town. The Daily Tar Heel counted almost 300 marchers, where the BSM president quoted in Black Ink put it at some 500. University Police broke up the gathering, and Black Ink reported no citations and no arrests. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), September 16, 1992, p. 6 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, September 4, 1992, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, September 11, 1992, p. 1
    47. Students march on South Building and give Chancellor Hardin a November 13 deadline Hundreds of students marched from the Pit to South Building on September 10, 1992, filling its steps, while leaders handed Chancellor Paul Hardin a letter giving him until November 13 to bring the trustees a concrete plan for a freestanding Black Cultural Center or face further direct action. Hardin said the march had not changed his position. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), September 16, 1992, p. 6
    48. Spike Lee speaks to thousands at a Black Cultural Center rally in the Smith Center Filmmaker Spike Lee, who had called the BSM after reading of Black football players leading the campaign, spoke at a coalition rally for a freestanding Black Cultural Center in the Dean E. Smith Center. University Police Chief Alana Ennis put the crowd at about 5,000, the Daily Tar Heel reported; Black Ink said more than 7,000. Nation of Islam minister Khalid Muhammad also spoke, and his remarks drew wide complaint that they drove away white supporters. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 5, 1992, p. 2 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, September 21, 1992, p. 1
    49. Provost McCormick names a working group to plan the Black Cultural Center's expansion On September 23, 1992, Provost Richard McCormick named a 13-member working group, proposed by Chancellor Paul Hardin on September 15, to prepare a concrete plan for a new or expanded Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center, among them Deloris Jordan, Harvey Gantt, Sonja Stone's parents Wendell and Doris Haynes, Faculty Council chairman James Peacock and three students. The coalition for a freestanding center and the center's advisory board refused to serve, the coalition saying it would deal only with Hardin himself. The Daily Tar Heel, September 24, 1992, p. 1
    50. City and regional planning students join the coalition for a freestanding Black Cultural Center The Planners' Forum of UNC's Department of City and Regional Planning voted unanimously on September 28, 1992, to join the coalition for a freestanding Black Cultural Center, the first stand it had taken on a campus issue. The Daily Tar Heel, September 29, 1992, p. 1
    51. Coalition leaders say they will not join the provost's Black Cultural Center working group At a forum in Dey Hall's Toy Lounge sponsored by Students for the Advancement of Race Relations, leaders of the coalition for a free-standing Black Cultural Center said no coalition member would sit on Provost Richard McCormick's working group and that they would deal only with Chancellor Paul Hardin, since the BCC Advisory Board had already done the planning. The Daily Tar Heel, October 1, 1992, p. 3
    52. Anonymous 'Brothers of the Sierte' letters go to both sides of the Black Cultural Center debate Hostile letters signed 'Brothers of the Sierte' reached Chancellor Paul Hardin, Provost Richard McCormick, professor Chuck Stone, BCC director Margo Crawford and student leaders in October 1992. Attorney Alan McSurely, newly retained by Crawford for a planned grievance, said they were meant to divide the movement and would go to the district attorney. People: Alan McSurely The Daily Tar Heel, November 5, 1992, p. 1
    53. Sangam, the Indian student association, votes to support a free-standing Black Cultural Center Sangam, UNC's Indian student association, voted by 76 percent of its members to support building a free-standing Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center, saying it wanted to dispel the idea of one minority against another. The Daily Tar Heel, October 2, 1992, p. 1
    54. Provost's working group votes for a free-standing Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center The working group Chancellor Paul Hardin set up under Provost Richard McCormick to plan a new or expanded Black Cultural Center voted 10-1-2 that its preference was a free-standing center, provided its program ensured inclusion rather than separatism, and passed a second resolution backing a free-standing Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center. The coalition for a free-standing center and the BCC Advisory Board stayed away, saying they would wait for Hardin's own pledge. The Daily Tar Heel, October 6, 1992, p. 1
    55. Provost's working group asks Chancellor Hardin to endorse a free-standing Black Cultural Center The Black Cultural Center working group unanimously adopted an interim report, drafted by law dean Judith Wegner, asking Chancellor Paul Hardin to endorse a free-standing center, to recommend naming it for Sonja Haynes Stone and to approve a timetable for building it; Harvey Gantt pressed for the timetable. The report went to Hardin the next morning, while the BCC Advisory Board said it did not recognize the working group. The Daily Tar Heel, October 13, 1992, p. 1
    56. Supporters of a free-standing Black Cultural Center stage a silent protest at University Day About 125 members of the coalition for a free-standing Black Cultural Center filed into Memorial Hall soon after the 199th University Day ceremony began and stood silently along the walls with signs reading 'BCC Now' and 'No More Waiting' and a 'Hardin's Plantation' banner. Before the Carolina Choir sang they filed out singing a version of a civil-rights song, and about a third of the 400 people present applauded; Provost Richard McCormick, the keynote speaker, called the protest respectful. The Daily Tar Heel, October 13, 1992, p. 1
    57. Faculty Council Executive Committee endorses the working group's call for a free-standing Black Cultural Center Voting 10 to 1, the Faculty Council Executive Committee endorsed the working group's October 12 interim report backing a free-standing Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center and offered its help, in a statement released the next day as Chancellor Paul Hardin weighed the report. The Daily Tar Heel, October 15, 1992, p. 1
    58. Chancellor Paul Hardin endorses a free-standing Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center At a press conference Chancellor Paul Hardin endorsed a free-standing facility to house the Black Cultural Center and said he would recommend naming it for Sonja Haynes Stone. When coalition leaders objected that the wording could mean a shared building, he signed a revised statement about three hours later pledging to work for a free-standing facility named the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center; the working group had discussed a spring 1996 opening. People: C. D. Spangler Jr. The Daily Tar Heel, October 16, 1992, p. 1
    59. BCC Advisory Board and the provost's working group agree to plan the new Black Cultural Center together At the working group's fourth meeting, Harold Wallace, speaking for the BCC Advisory Board, invited the panel to send members to the board's facilities and planning committee, and the group unanimously accepted and named Richard McCormick, Deloris Jordan, Harvey Gantt, Robert Eubanks, James Peacock and a doctoral student. Black Awareness Council members said their November 13 deadline for the chancellor was tentatively off, and a timetable put the building's completion at May 1, 1996. The Daily Tar Heel, October 20, 1992, p. 1
    60. Jim Gardner criticizes the Black Cultural Center plan at Republican headquarters in Chapel Hill In the last weeks of his 1992 campaign for governor, Republican Jim Gardner told about 50 supporters at the party's Chapel Hill headquarters that a freestanding Black Cultural Center would undo twenty years of work toward racial integration. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 22, 1993, p. 6 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 27, 1992, p. 1
    61. The Black Cultural Center working group and advisory board hold their first joint meeting Members of Chancellor Paul Hardin's Black Cultural Center working group and the BCC Advisory Board held their first official meeting on October 28, 1992, discussing sites for a free-standing center and placing academic departments and a library in it. Provost Richard McCormick hoped for a concrete plan by January. The Daily Tar Heel, October 29, 1992, p. 1
    62. UNC faculty leaders deplore threats in the Black Cultural Center debate The executive committee of UNC's Faculty Council issued a statement by November 11, 1992, deploring threats and harassment in campus debate after anonymous 'Sierte' letters threatened figures on both sides of the free-standing Black Cultural Center question; the BCC Advisory Board, Black faculty and staff groups, the AAUP chapter and the Employee Forum endorsed it, but Student Congress voted 12 to 7 on November 11 not to. BCC director Margo Crawford's attorney said he might ask District Attorney Carl Fox to investigate. People: Alan McSurely The Daily Tar Heel, November 12, 1992, p. 3
    63. The new Coalition of Chapel Hill-Carrboro Clergy endorses a free-standing Black Cultural Center Meeting at Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church on November 5, 1992, thirteen Black and white ministers of the newly organized Coalition of Chapel Hill-Carrboro Clergy approved a statement backing a free-standing Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center as a step against racism, and 17 more signed afterward. The Rev. J.R. Manley of First Baptist Church said Black people had a responsibility to lead in a multicultural society. The Daily Tar Heel, November 19, 1992, p. 3
    64. Rep. Maxine Waters gives a Human Rights Week keynote and praises the Black Cultural Center campaign U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters of Los Angeles told about 150 people in Memorial Hall on November 12, 1992, that the Los Angeles riots grew from the nation's neglect of poor young people, and at a dinner at the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center she said the students' success in winning Chancellor Paul Hardin's support for a free-standing center had brought her to UNC. Hers was the fourth keynote of a Human Rights Week that opened with Rep. Patricia Schroeder's King Memorial Lecture on November 9 and TransAfrica's Randall Robinson on November 10. The Daily Tar Heel, November 13, 1992, p. 1
    65. The Black Cultural Center publishes the literary magazine sauti mpya The Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center released volume one, number one of sauti mpya (Swahili for 'new voice'), a 32-page magazine of 31 stories, poems and artworks by Black students, on December 2, 1992. The Daily Tar Heel called it the center's first literary magazine; its adviser, associate medical dean Marion Phillips, tied it to the tradition of the enslaved poet George Moses Horton. The Daily Tar Heel, December 10, 1992, p. 3
    66. Black Cultural Center working group endorses a 48,000-square-foot building as Director Margo Crawford walks out At a tense meeting on February 15, 1993, Black Cultural Center director Margo Crawford and about 20 supporters walked out after working-group member Harvey Gantt criticized their negotiating tactics, and Crawford withdrew from writing the proposal, calling the process "a farce." The chancellor's working group then endorsed a 48,000-square-foot plan drawn by Gantt and modified by University architect Teresa Crossland, estimated at $6.9 million and dependent on private gifts, dropped the Student Union parking lot and Michie house sites, and put off the choice between the Wilson Library-Dey Hall and Coker Hall-Bell Tower sites. The Daily Tar Heel, February 16, 1993, p. 1
    67. Black Cultural Center working group recommends a building but no site At its last meeting, the chancellor's working group voted to send Chancellor Paul Hardin a report recommending a 48,000-square-foot free-standing center and listing both the Wilson-Dey and Coker Woods plots as acceptable, after motions to endorse either site failed. The BCC Advisory Board and the student coalition said they would back only the Wilson-Dey site. The Daily Tar Heel, March 2, 1993, p. 1
    68. The BCC Advisory Board breaks with the working group and sends trustees its own plan for the Wilson site On the day the chancellor's working group's Report on the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center, for a 48,000-square-foot, $6.9 million building with no site chosen, reached Chancellor Paul Hardin, the BCC Advisory Board called the report slanted toward Coker Woods and said it would write its own. By the next night the board had mailed the trustees its rival plan for a 53,000-square-foot center on the land between Wilson Library and Dey Hall. The Daily Tar Heel, March 23, 1993, p. 1
    69. About 200 students rally at South Building for a Black Cultural Center beside Wilson Library About 200 students gathered in the Pit and marched to South Building, chanting for a free-standing BCC on the Wilson site, and heard coalition leaders speak for almost an hour ahead of the trustees' Friday meeting. Provost Richard McCormick said he worried protests might put off trustees and donors. The Daily Tar Heel, March 25, 1993, p. 1
    70. UNC trustees defeat John Pope's resolution to stop considering a free-standing Black Cultural Center Meeting March 26, the trustees declined to put either BCC report on their agenda but defeated trustee John Pope's resolution against any free-standing black cultural center, which only Student Body President John Moody seconded, and set the center for their May 28 meeting. The Daily Tar Heel, April 2, 1993, p. 1
    71. Dinesh D'Souza debates at UNC and calls a freestanding Black Cultural Center separatist Author Dinesh D'Souza spoke in a debate at UNC on March 30, 1993, and said a freestanding center for Black culture would be an act of Black separatism. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 22, 1993, p. 6
    72. Students begin a sit-in in the South Building rotunda for a Black Cultural Center About 20 students occupied the rotunda between the chancellor's and provost's offices, hung a banner naming South Building the temporary home of the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center, and said they would stay until the BCC was settled on the Wilson-Dey site. They held the rotunda in shifts through the weekend, and on April 4 Chancellor Paul Hardin refused their call for an emergency trustees' meeting. The Daily Tar Heel, April 2, 1993, p. 1
    73. Basketball co-captain George Lynch urges support for the Black Cultural Center at the NCAA welcome-home At the Smith Center celebration for the national champions, senior co-captain George Lynch, a member of the BCC Advisory Board, told about 15,000 fans and a television audience to support the Black Cultural Center; the paper called him the first UNC basketball player to back the movement actively. The Daily Tar Heel, April 7, 1993, p. 1
    74. Sit-in supporters confront Chancellor Hardin on his return, and he again refuses an emergency trustees meeting Met by about 60 supporters of a freestanding Black Cultural Center when he returned to South Building after a weeklong absence, Hardin told them he would not call an emergency Board of Trustees meeting and would reach his own conclusions on the BCC Advisory Board and Chancellor's Working Group reports. The students had held the South Building rotunda since April 1. He had first refused the call by telephone from New Orleans on April 4. The Daily Tar Heel, April 12, 1993, p. 1
    75. UNC's Buildings and Grounds Committee holds a public hearing on the Black Cultural Center site Before about 150 people at the Institute of Government's Knapp Building, nearly 20 speakers argued over the two sites still under study, beside Wilson Library and between Coker Hall and the Bell Tower. Three faculty members spoke for a sciences building on the Wilson site, the first time they had faced BCC advocates in an open forum; the committee then met privately and on April 14 put off its recommendation to May 12. The Daily Tar Heel, April 14, 1993, p. 1
    76. Jesse Jackson comes to Chapel Hill during the Black Cultural Center sit-in Jesse Jackson came to Chapel Hill on Wednesday, April 14, 1993, while students occupied South Building for a free-standing Black Cultural Center. He visited the sit-in in the South Building rotunda that afternoon and spoke to a near-capacity crowd in Memorial Hall that night. Early on April 15 he met first with Chancellor Hardin, at a breakfast Hardin moved to his home on Country Club Road, and urged him to call a special trustees' meeting, which Hardin refused. Jackson left campus that morning; sixteen students and a Chapel Hill resident were arrested later that day. Reclaiming the University of the People: The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, April 15, 1993, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, April 16, 1993, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, August 23, 1993, p. 1
    77. Trustees' chairman moves the board meeting that will take up the Black Cultural Center to June Board of Trustees chairman Robert Strickland asked to move the next meeting from May 28 to June 18, and the Buildings and Grounds Committee put off its site recommendation to May 12; BCC advocates called it a delay tactic. The Daily Tar Heel, April 15, 1993, p. 1
    78. Black Cultural Center supporters call, then call off, a boycott of Student Stores At a Pit speakout hours after the arrests in Hardin's office, coalition leaders urged students to boycott Student Stores and its outlets to hit the University in the pocket. On the night of April 18 the coalition dropped the boycott to concentrate on lobbying trustees, after the stores' director said its profits went to student scholarships. The Daily Tar Heel, April 19, 1993, p. 3
    79. Police arrest 17 Black Cultural Center protesters in Chancellor Hardin's office After Jesse Jackson's breakfast with Hardin failed to move him, about 70 students marched from the Stone Center to Hardin's South Building office; when they refused to leave, University Police arrested 16 students and a local school employee for disorderly conduct, ending the sit-in held in the rotunda since April 1. They were arraigned at the Orange County Jail in Hillsborough and released, and about 180 people marched to the Chapel Hill police station; the Daily Tar Heel called it the first mass arrest of student protesters at UNC since the Vietnam War era. The Daily Tar Heel, April 16, 1993, p. 1
    80. The local State Employees Association chapter endorses the Wilson site for the Black Cultural Center At its monthly meeting, District 19 of the State Employees Association of North Carolina passed a resolution, introduced by UNC faculty member Charles Childs, endorsing the Wilson-Dey site for a freestanding Black Cultural Center and urging the administration to recommend it to the trustees. The Daily Tar Heel, April 22, 1993, p. 3
    81. The Rev. Leon White anoints the Wilson Library site for a Black Cultural Center White, a United Church of Christ pastor in Vance County and longtime associate of new NAACP director Ben Chavis, led about 40 students from the BCC to the land between Wilson Library and Dey Hall, consecrated an altar there and anointed about 12 students as 'trustees' of the land, warning that the struggle would escalate if anything else were built on it. The Daily Tar Heel, April 22, 1993, p. 1
    82. SCLC president Joseph Lowery backs the Black Cultural Center campaign at the Wilson site On April 25, 1993 the Rev. Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, preached at First Baptist Church in Chapel Hill and then spoke to about 50 people at the site between Wilson Library and Dey Hall that students wanted for a freestanding Black Cultural Center. Lowery and the Rev. Leon White led supporters on a march from campus to Glenwood Square. The Daily Tar Heel, April 26, 1993, p. 1
    83. The Rev. Leon White ends a prayer walk from Chapel Hill at the legislature for the Black Cultural Center On April 26, 1993 the Rev. Leon White finished a 30-mile prayer walk from Chapel Hill to the General Assembly in Raleigh for a freestanding Black Cultural Center. Ten people joined him at what had been billed as a rally. The Daily Tar Heel, April 27, 1993, p. 3
    84. The district attorney drops charges against the 17 Black Cultural Center sit-in protesters On May 6, 1993 District Attorney Carl Fox had disorderly conduct charges dismissed against the 16 students and one Chapel Hill resident arrested in Chancellor Paul Hardin's office on April 15 at the end of a two-week sit-in for a freestanding Black Cultural Center. Fox acted after Hardin wrote that he did not wish to press charges. People: Alan McSurely The Daily Tar Heel, May 20, 1993, p. 1
    85. UNC freezes the Black Cultural Center's operating budget after an audit On May 25, 1993 Vice Chancellor Donald Boulton told the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center it could spend no more money for the fiscal year after an internal audit found unlogged long-distance calls and that the center had run out of funds. Director Margo Crawford asked whether the center was being singled out for its role in the freestanding center campaign; a Chapel Hill resident gave $500 for June. The Daily Tar Heel, June 10, 1993, p. 1
    86. UNC's Buildings and Grounds Committee rates the Wilson-Dey site acceptable for the Black Cultural Center On June 28, 1993 the Buildings and Grounds Committee reported to Chancellor Paul Hardin that the Wilson-Dey site was an acceptable location for a freestanding Black Cultural Center and the Coker Woods site less acceptable, finding the sciences did not need the Wilson-Dey land. The report also suggested replacing the Campus Y building, which Campus Y and center supporters rejected. The Daily Tar Heel, July 1, 1993, p. 1
    87. 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 The Daily Tar Heel, July 29, 1993, p. 1: BOT approves BCC on Coker site · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, November 19, 1992, p. 1
    88. Stone Center advisory board asks the trustees to review the Coker Woods site The Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center Advisory Board wrote trustees chairman John Harris on September 10 asking for an open meeting on whether the Coker Woods site by the Bell Tower was buildable, saying it still preferred the Wilson-Dey site and wanted the center's $7 million included in the Bicentennial Campaign. Harris replied on September 14 by putting the site on the board's September 24 agenda. The Daily Tar Heel, September 13, 1993, p. 1
    89. Former trustee John W. Pope runs a newspaper ad against the Black Cultural Center After the trustees approved a freestanding center, former UNC trustee John W. Pope took out a full-page ad in The Chapel Hill News calling on residents, parents and students to oppose the project as a monument to racial separatism. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 22, 1993, p. 6
    90. Bicentennial Campaign steering committee puts off adding the Stone Center to its goal Meeting on September 17, the campaign's steering committee deferred until December a decision on raising its $320 million goal by $7 million for the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center, citing pledges $32 million short and lagging building projects. Advisory board chairman Harry Amana called it a symbolic setback; Provost Richard McCormick said fund raising for the center would go on. The Daily Tar Heel, September 20, 1993, p. 1
    91. UNC trustees refuse to reconsider the Coker Woods site for the Stone Center After five-minute presentations by Black Cultural Center director Margo Crawford and Campus Y co-president Michelle LeGrand on September 24, none of the six trustees who had voted for the Coker Woods site in July would move to reopen the question. Chairman John Harris cited an engineering study finding the site buildable; trustee Angela Bryant, who had voted against Coker, said the board did not grasp the symbolic weight of the Wilson-Dey site on the main quad. The Daily Tar Heel, September 27, 1993, p. 1
    92. The Black Student Movement rallies in the Pit for a Black Cultural Center on the Wilson-Dey site At a meeting in the Pit on October 4, billed as an information rally for new students, BSM President John Bradley said the movement still backed the site between Wilson Library and Dey Hall over the trustees' Coker Woods site and asked why the $7 million building was not part of the $320 million Bicentennial Campaign. Campus Y co-president Michelle LeGrand spoke on the symbolism of the two sites; afterward a student opposed to a publicly funded center debated BSM members inside the Black Cultural Center. The Daily Tar Heel, October 5, 1993, p. 1
    93. A plane trailing banners against the Black Cultural Center circles Kenan Stadium During the Homecoming game with Wake Forest on October 9, a plane circled Kenan Stadium and the campus towing a banner reading 'NO RACISM NO SEPARATISM NO BCC' and, in the second half, another attacking the University's support for the center. No one claimed responsibility; the Daily Tar Heel called it one of the first public protests against the proposed Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center, and supporters of the center condemned it. The Daily Tar Heel, October 11, 1993, p. 1
    94. Student Congress votes down a bill condemning a freestanding Black Cultural Center UNC's Student Congress rejected, 17 to 3 with seven abstentions, a bill that called the planned freestanding Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center a source of racial separatism and urged the trustees, legislature and governor to oppose building it with public money. The same night the congress fell short of the two-thirds vote needed to restore $7,201 for minority recruitment programs it had funded since 1973. The Daily Tar Heel, October 28, 1993, p. 1
    95. Stone Center advisory board backs the students' acceptance of the Coker Woods site The Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center Advisory Board voted unanimously to support the November 10 decision of the Black Student Movement, Campus Y and Student Environmental Action Coalition to accept the Coker Woods site, while chairman Harry Amana said the site should still be fully studied before building. Vice Chancellor Harold Wallace said the fund-raising committee was preparing a case statement and recruiting leaders for a statewide campaign. The Daily Tar Heel, December 1, 1993, p. 3
    96. UNC's development office begins planning a $7 million drive for the Stone Center building After the trustees approved a building on the Coker Woods site between Coker Hall and the Bell Tower in July 1993, UNC's development office began seeking volunteer leaders and lead gifts for a center estimated at $7 million. Associate vice chancellor Matt Kupec said Bicentennial campaign funds could not be shifted to it and the drive would likely take several years. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 1, 1993, p. 5
    97. Black Student Movement, Campus Y and SEAC leaders accept the Coker Woods site for the Stone Center At a news conference in the Black Cultural Center in the Student Union, leaders of the three groups ended their campaign for the Wilson-Dey site on the main quad and said they would support building the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center on the Coker Woods site the trustees had chosen in July. BSM president John Bradley said the students wanted a building wherever it stood and asked Chancellor Paul Hardin for a timetable; SEAC said it still opposed the site but would not stand in the way, and Hardin told the Faculty Council on November 12 that the students would help plan the center. The Daily Tar Heel, November 11, 1993, p. 1
    98. Bicentennial Campaign adds $7 million for the Stone Center and raises its goal to $400 million At its December meeting the Bicentennial Campaign steering committee added $7 million for a freestanding Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center to UNC's fund drive, two months after deferring the step, as part of an $80 million increase that lifted the goal from $320 million to $400 million. Co-chairman Billy Armfield said student leaders' acceptance of the Coker Woods site had ended the controversy; the rest of the increase was for units such as the Graduate School and the School of Information and Library Science that lagged far behind their goals. The Daily Tar Heel, January 10, 1994, p. 3
    99. Hardin accepts Margo Crawford's resignation as director of the Stone Black Cultural Center Crawford, who had led the center through the campaign for a free-standing building, resigned effective Jan. 31 to join Bea Young Associates, a cultural diversity consulting firm in Glencoe, Ill., and a DePaul University school project in Chicago. The Daily Tar Heel, January 10, 1994, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, January 12, 1994, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, January 13, 1994, p. 2
    100. Chancellor Hardin names Harold Wallace interim director of the Stone Black Cultural Center Hardin chose Harold Wallace, vice chancellor for University affairs and chairman emeritus of the center's advisory board, to run the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center while the University searched nationally for a successor to Margo Crawford, who was leaving Jan. 31 for an Illinois consulting firm. Hardin said every group he consulted backed Wallace unanimously; Wallace kept his vice chancellorship. The Daily Tar Heel, January 14, 1994, p. 1
    101. Chancellor Hardin moves the Black Cultural Center under the Division of Academic Affairs Chancellor Paul Hardin announced that the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center would be classed as an academic unit rather than a student group and would move from the Division of Student Affairs to Provost Richard McCormick's Division of Academic Affairs, with the date of the change left open. BCC Advisory Board chairman Harry Amana backed the move, though he said the board had not reached a consensus and some members preferred the Division of University Affairs. The Daily Tar Heel, March 4, 1994, p. 1
    102. UNC puts off the search for a permanent Stone Center director until fund raising advances On the advice of the Black Cultural Center Advisory Board, chaired until May by Harry Amana, Provost Richard McCormick delayed the national search for a permanent director of the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center until fund raising for the $7 million building made progress, saying top candidates should not be told their first job was to raise the money. Harold Wallace stayed on as interim director, and McCormick said a permanent director might be in place by July 1, 1995. The Daily Tar Heel, May 26, 1994, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, August 22, 1994, p. 20
    103. Board of Governors approves the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center building On May 13 the UNC Board of Governors approved the proposed 50,000-square-foot Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center, to be paid for entirely by private gifts, and sent it to the General Assembly with other Chapel Hill projects, among them a dentistry addition, Lineberger and business school buildings, Carolina Inn additions and the N.C. Children's and Women's hospitals. The Daily Tar Heel, May 19, 1994, p. 3
    104. UNC names five prominent North Carolinians to lead fund raising for the Stone Center building The University announced that Maya Angelou, Bob Eubanks, Deloris Jordan, Dean Smith and Jack Tate would lead the campaign for a freestanding Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center. A year after the building plan was settled, slightly more than $500,000 of the $7 million needed had been pledged, and advisory board spokesman Harold Woodard said the center had not yet shifted into high fund-raising mode. People: Dean Smith The Daily Tar Heel, September 13, 1994, p. 1
    105. The Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center opens a lecture series with Yosef Ben-Jochannan Scholar Yosef Ben-Jochannan, author of "Black Man of the Nile and His Family," opened the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center's new biweekly lecture series on September 14 before about 150 people in the Student Union film auditorium, speaking on African achievements in science, philosophy and religion that schools had overlooked. The Daily Tar Heel, September 15, 1994, p. 3
    106. NationsBank pledges $500,000 and a matching challenge toward the Stone Black Cultural Center building NationsBank Corp. pledged on September 22 an outright gift of $500,000 toward building the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center and up to $500,000 more if other North Carolina banks gave $1 million, a $2 million goal from the state's banking industry; Chancellor Paul Hardin announced it to the trustees the next day. Before the pledge the $7 million building had about $500,000 in commitments, and NationsBank chairman Hugh McColl agreed to lead the banks' drive. The Daily Tar Heel, September 26, 1994, p. 1
    107. Five Black alumnae pledge $25,000 to the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center At the 14th annual Black Alumni Reunion, held the weekend of Oct. 7-9, five Black UNC alumnae, all members of the University's Delta Sigma Theta chapter, pledged $5,000 each to the planned free-standing Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center, which the Office of Development called the largest gift from a minority group so far. The $7 million campaign, part of the Bicentennial Campaign, had raised a little more than $500,000 by September before NationsBank pledged up to $1 million on Sept. 23. The Daily Tar Heel, October 13, 1994, p. 3
    108. Leaders of the Stone Black Cultural Center fund drive meet to plan raising $5.4 million The fund-raising campaign for the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center met for the first time, bringing campaign leaders Maya Angelou, Dean Smith, Bob Eubanks and Jack Tate together with a special gifts committee of faculty, staff, students and community leaders to plan how to raise the $5.4 million still needed of the $7 million cost by June 1995. About $1.6 million had been raised, most of it after NationsBank's September 23 pledge of up to $1 million, and the committee planned both major solicitations and a broad community appeal. People: Dean Smith The Daily Tar Heel, November 8, 1994, p. 1
    109. 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
    110. The Black Publishers of North Carolina pledge $100,000 toward a freestanding Black Cultural Center New director Gerald Horne reported a $100,000 pledge from the Black Publishers of North Carolina toward the $7.5 million freestanding Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 19, 1996, p. 6
    111. Robin D. G. Kelley opens the Black Cultural Center's Blacks in the Diaspora lecture series Historian Robin D. G. Kelley of New York University gave the season's first lecture in the Black Cultural Center's Blacks in the Diaspora series, "It's Always Night: Surrealism in the Black World," tying hip-hop and jazz to surrealism. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 1998, p. 17
    112. The Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble raises $25,000 for a freestanding Black Cultural Center The Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble danced to a sold-out Memorial Hall, including Ailey's Revelations, in a benefit that raised $25,000 toward a freestanding Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center. The next day the dancers taught a master class for the center's youth program and the Opeyo! dancers. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), March 1999, p. 3
    113. A Clayton estate bequest completes the money for a freestanding Stone Center UNC announced a $28.6 million gift from the estate of alumnus David Benjamin Clayton. Under allocations Chancellor Michael Hooker set before his death in June, interest on $11 million, about $250,000 a year, went to the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center, which the BSM president said completed the funding for a freestanding building between the Bell Tower and Coker Hall. People: Michael Hooker Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 1999, p. 11
    114. UNC trustees approve the freestanding Stone Center building The Board of Trustees approved the freestanding Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center, a three-story, 36,000-square-foot building on South Road with a library, auditorium, art gallery, dance studio and offices for BSM subgroups, Upward Bound and the Institute of African-American Research. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), May 2001, p. 6
    115. Randall Robinson addresses the Blacks in the Diaspora student conference at the Carolina Inn TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson spoke to about 200 people at a luncheon of the seventh annual Blacks in the Diaspora Student Academic Conference, sponsored by the Black Cultural Center and the Institute for African-American Research, on segregation, Black History Month and his case for reparations in The Debt. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), March 2001, p. 4
    116. Ground is broken for the freestanding Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center The university broke ground for the freestanding Stone Center in the Bell Tower parking lot, nearly ten years after students began campaigning for it. It would be the first campus building named only for an African-American woman. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), October 2001, p. 5
    117. 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
    118. 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 The Daily Tar Heel: Set in Stone, August 23, 2004, p. 1
    119. Ralph Frasier speaks at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center Ralph Frasier, one of UNC's first three Black undergraduates, gave a free public talk in the Hitchcock Room of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History. He had left the university in 1958 without a degree. UNC News Archives: Frasier, who helped integrate UNC, to speak

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