Southeastern Black Press Institute Records, 1976-1979

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Southeastern Black Press Institute Records, 1976-1979

1976-1979

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The Southeastern Black Press Institute was founded by Sonja Haynes Stone in 1977 as a demonstration project of the Curriculum in African and Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The project provided support to the black press in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Washington D.C., chiefly through technical assistance and leadership training for future journalists. Southeastern Black Press Institute Records, 1976-1979, consist of advisory board minutes and communications, correspondence, reports, photographs, financial records, and print ephemera. Materials document grant activities reported to the Rockefeller Foundation, communications within the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, outreach to the black press community and to educators and students who might be interested in the summer journalism program and newspaper internships. Also of note is a letter from Stone to the African Heritage Studies Association in which she sought support for her tenure appeal, citing the project as an example of the value and potential of Afro-American Studies as a discipline and as a bridge to the black community.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. University Archives and Records Service

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SNAC Resource ID: 11654573

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. University Archives and Records Service

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Southeastern Black Press Institute

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The Southeastern Black Press Institute (SBPI) was founded in 1977 as a demonstration project of the Curriculum in African and Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The project provided support to the black press in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Washington D.C., chiefly through technical assistance and leadership training for future journalists. Sonja Haynes Stone, the director of the Curriculum in African and Af...

Stone, Sonja Haynes, 1938-1991

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Dr. Sonja Haynes Stone (1938-1991) was an associate professor of African-American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 1974 to 1979 she served as director of the African-American Studies curriculum, and from 1974 to 1980 she was adviser to the Black Student Movement, a student organization at UNC-CH. The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is named in her honor. ...