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Sonja Haynes Stone Center (Black Cultural Center)

In Chapel Hill. 6 dated events, 1991–2010.

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Books, articles, records and pictures in the index about Sonja Haynes Stone Center, found by its names in titles, catalog subjects and the index’s descriptions, and read one by one. Those held at OCPL come 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.

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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Published by or for it

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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In the chronology

  1. Students campaign for a freestanding Black Cultural Center After Sonja Haynes Stone died in 1991, students, faculty and Black athletes at UNC pressed for a freestanding Black Cultural Center named for her. Following marches in September 1992, Chancellor Paul Hardin endorsed a freestanding building on October 15, 1992, and the trustees approved a site in 1993. People: Sonja Haynes Stone
  2. 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.
  3. Jesse Jackson comes to Chapel Hill during the Black Cultural Center sit-in Jesse Jackson came to Chapel Hill while students occupied South Building for a free-standing Black Cultural Center, met first with Chancellor Hardin and urged him to call a special trustees' meeting, which Hardin refused. Sixteen students and a Chapel Hill resident were arrested that day.
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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.

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