help in the planning of the new facility. The students placed two stipulations on their participation: they wanted the planning to be done largely by the center's existing advisory committee; they wanted the center to remain student run for the most part. In an October 19 meeting of the panel, the students agreed to suspend their threat of "direct action" if Hardin did not support a free-standing center by November 13. The activist students had achieved a victory, but Black Student Movement President Michelle Thomas showed an awareness of the different challenges that lay ahead: "First we were concerned with step one, and that was the chancellor. Now, we're doing step two, which is the proposal. Once we get to step three—the trustees—we do what we have to do." References External links University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC–Chapel Hill) website Category:African-American cultural history Category:Cultural centers in the United States Category:History museums in North Carolina Category:History of African-American civil rights Category:Museums in Chapel Hill, North Carolina Category:Museums established in 1988 Category:1988 establishments in North Carolina Category:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill