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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Southeastern Black Press Institute Records #40502, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Joseph Jordan and Sonja Haynes Stone Center in October 2019 (RT 20191018.1).

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Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, November 2019

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• African American press--History--20th century.
• Journalism--Study and teaching.
• Southeastern Black Press Institute.
• Stone, Sonja Haynes.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Curricula.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History--20th century.

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 Afro-American Studies, secured a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to plan and launch the project.

The 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.

• Photographs (PF-40502/1-2)