https://bricklayers.history.ncsu.edu/files/original/09656493b2a71281a28751f64a68ba46.jpg 582d44e9876b315d3ea84d4e15c19b21 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dr. Augustus Witherspoon Description An account of the resource Augustus Witherspoon (1930-1994) was born in South Carolina. The botany professor was a high school teacher, published researcher, veteran, member of St. Paul AME Church, and member of Alpha Phi Alpha. Along with forming the African American Cultural Center, Witherspoon and Associate Provost, Lawrence M. Clark founded the study abroad program in Ghana. Whether it was in Raleigh or the university, Witherspoon made African American success a top priority. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "Augustus Witherspoon". People. Admistrators, faculty, staff, W (UA023.024.035). Special Collections Resource Center at NC State University Libraries. Accessed March 20, 2019. <a href="https://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog/0227377#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-4425%2C605%2C12893%2C6519">https://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog/0227377#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-4425%2C605%2C12893%2C6519</a> https://bricklayers.history.ncsu.edu/files/original/0816cc4b7cf8eafd1c632c9e16129d29.png a06714bf38d09674f910ac0124a3d659 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource The captions read: for top picture: "Viewing West Campus was easy through the gaping hole left in the back of the Annex. Sullivan looks as if it is ominously towering over Bragaw from this unusual angle. Tanya Stephens." For bottom picture: "With weather on the side of the construction for a change, the building of the Student Center Annex moved along at a pretty good place. Tanya Stephens." Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived North Carolina State College, Board of Student Publications. "1990 Agromeck: Leaders of the Pack, Volume 88, North Carolina State University". 1990. North Carolina State University. Agromeck (LD3928.N75). Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries. Accessed February 18, 2019. https://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog/agromeck-1990#?c=&m=&s=&cv=268&xywh=-897%2C-174%2C3547%2C2186 Title A name given to the resource Witherspoon (then Student Center Annex) Under Construction Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Agromeck https://bricklayers.history.ncsu.edu/files/original/80a960dcc453e2f26c75be49b6627e5d.png 6655b0890cb42ee8c174dd05209257a5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Kwame Toure': Pan-Afrkanist Tours the Triangle" Subject The topic of the resource Events at Witherspoon Description An account of the resource Witherspoon hosted many speakers and events. One of which was Kwame Toure, also known as Stokely Carmichael. March 22, 1996 Toure visited NC State to discuss Pan-Africanism, capitalism, and socialism. He also encouraged listeners to keep fighting. Toure was a civil rights activist and most famously, the co-founder of the Black Panther Party. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Nubian Message Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Holloway, Carolyn. "Kwame Toure': Pan-Afrikanist Tours the Triangle". The Nubian Message. March 28, 1996. Th Nubian Message (LH1. H6 N83). Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries. Accessed February 15, 2019. https://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog/nubian-message-1996-03-28#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-2040%2C1382%2C6721%2C4142 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Student Centers Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Witherspoon Student Center Description An account of the resource The Student Center Annex (SCA), now the Witherspoon Student Center, was completed in the fall of 1990 and opened in January 1991. Raleigh contractor Clancy and Theys Construction Company built the SCA and Michael Rickenbaker served as the consulting architect. The SCA was built to adjust to the increase of students and their need for space. Additional space also meant the shuffling of student organization headquarters. Some of the organizations that moved from the Talley Student Center to the SCA were WKNC, NC State's radio station; the Agromeck, NC State's yearbook; the Technician, one of the university's newspaper; and Windhover, the school's literary and arts magazine. On April 1, 1995, the SCA was renamed the Witherspoon Student Center after Dr. Augustus Witherspoon who taught botany at NC State from 1969 to 1994. He began as an instructor and rose to full professor in 1982. Witherspoon was the second African American to earn a doctorate degree from NCSU and authored or co-authored fifteen publications. He served as principal investigator for ten-federally funded environmental studies. Witherspoon was influential in North Carolina’s and the university’s communities. Dr. Witherspoon was a pastor of St. Luke African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church from 1981 until his death in 1994, and a member of St. Paul AME Church. He served on the Executive Board of City Vista Volunteers, was a part of North Carolina Alcohol Research Authority, and Neighborhood Arts Council. He helped organize the African American Parents Educational Advocacy Association. Witherspoon also had a major role in African American student retention and enrollment at NC State. The day after the Witherspoon Student Center naming ceremony, the university held a gathering for the Raleigh African American community and NC State African American faculty and staff at the Martin Street Baptist Church to discuss the relationship between the university and the African American community. Chancellor Larry Monteith spoke, and remarked on the university’s improved relations with the African American community since the late 1970s, but also stated there was still more the university could do. Monteith noted that one of the reasons for NC State’s negative reputation in the African American community was due to NC State not extending their outreach programs to the African American community. At his speech Monteith stated that another reason for NC State’s unfavorable reputation was the exclusion African American students felt on campus. In 1974, the YMCA near campus was demolished for a School of Design building. African American students were outraged by the YMCA’s destruction because the YMCA was where the students met and felt a sense of community. Banks Talley Jr., Administrator of Student Affairs, believed there was no need for two student unions. After talking with Witherspoon who was aware of the African American students' sentiments, Talley suggested a "Black Union." But Witherspoon objected, reasoning that there was no need for a separate union and a "Black Union" was not the same as a cultural center. After a forum with the NC State community, in 1975, the African American Cultural Center (AACC) was created and located in the old print shop, or currently, the West Dunn Building. Students found the facilities dissatisfying with the shop’s poor ventilation and limited space. Students wanted a library and more space for black organizations. A decade and a half later, after debating and planning amongst student, faculty, and staff, the AACC was added to the construction plans of the SCA. Witherspoon helped the AACC to grow, but he was not alive to accept the honor of having the SCA renamed after him. Efforts had been made to have the building renamed while Witherspoon was still on campus. Around 1986 and 1987, student body president, Gary V. Mauney and instructor and coordinator of African American Student Affairs, Jerry L. Bettis Sr. recommended Witherspoon’s name to replace “Student Center Annex.” In 1993, the Association of Students for African American Culture pushed for Witherspoon’s name to replace AACC. Two years later SCA changed to Witherspoon Student Center. The renaming ceremony consisted of a speech by Chancellor Larry Monteith, NC State faculty, staff, student; Cookie Witherspoon, Witherspoon's wife, and one of NC State's first African American undergraduate student, Irwin Holmes. The Chancellor’s speech highlighted Witherspoon’s efforts in increasing the African American student enrollment and retention, and the significance of Witherspoon being the first African American to be memorialized on campus. The Witherspoon Student Center was and is lively. Today, the center is a place to catch a blockbuster movie, the headquarters of WKNC, and a hub for student organizations and government and publications. At the AACC’s art gallery, four to six exhibits are displayed every academic year. Topics range from Sherrod Gresham’s collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century stamps featuring black notables in 2005, to a compilation of artwork under the exhibit title, “The Politicization and Sexualization of Black Bodies” in 2019. On the whole, the AACC has hosted events such as, Heritage Day, Kwanza, Blacks in Wax Live Museum, Clark Lecture, and Pan-African Week. Lastly, speeches from Kwame Toure (Stokely Carmichael), Shaun King, Dr. Thadeline Cartwright, Tony Brown, Charles Moose, and Symone Sanders have been held at the AACC. References Original Source References NC State University Special Collections Research Center: Agromeck Larry Monteith Papers, 1933-1999, 2009, 2014. MC00262. North Carolina State University, Office of the Provost, Office of Diversity and African American Affairs Records, 1956-2011. UA 005.14. North Carolina State University, University Archives Reference Collection, Biographical Files, 1889-2019. UA050.003 Box 6. The Nubian Message Technician Secondary Source References "Historical State Timelines: African Americans". North Carolina State University Libraries. Accessed January 29, 2019. <a href="https://historicalstate.lib.ncsu.edu/timelines/african-americans">https://historicalstate.lib.ncsu.edu/timelines/african-americans</a> Allison, Donnetrice C. “Free to Be Me?: Black Professors, White Institutions”. Journal of Black Studies Vol 38, Issue 4 (March 19, 2007). Pp 641-662. Davis, Junius A. and Anne Borders-Patterson. Black Students in Predominately White North Carolina Colleges and Universities, 1986: Replication of a 1970 Study. New York: College Entrance Examination Board, 1986. Rogers, Ibram H. The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education 1965-1972. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. The Evolving Challenges of Black College Students: New Insights for Policy, Practice, and Research. Edited by Terrell L. Strayhorn and Melvin C. Terrell. Sterling: Stylus, 2010. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jordan Scott Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019/03/23 African American Cultural Center African Americans Agromeck Augustus Witherspoon Banks C. Talley Jr Clancy and Theys Construction Company Irwin Holmes Larry Montieth Michael Rickenbaker Student Life Technician Witherspoon Student Center YMCA