Document Description: The Black Student Movement rallied in 1971 at the University’s Confederate Monument in memory of James Lewis Cates, a young Black man from Chapel Hill stabbed on the University campus by a member of a white motorcycle gang while police officers watched, and William Murphey, a Black man murdered by a white state trooper in Ayden, North Carolina. Because both men’s murders were painful instances of anti-Black violence in North Carolina, the rallying point of the Confederate Monument was chosen to highlight that visible racism.
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Organization: Black Student Movement
Date: 12/1/1971
Document Type: Photograph
Creator: Leslie Todd, Phil McAlpin, John Hankins
Document Collection: Black Ink
Campus Space: McCorkle Place
Citation: “Blacks stage memorial for James Cates and William Murphey.” Black Ink. December 1971. Page 5.
Document Description: The Black Student Movement rallied in 1971 at the University’s Confederate Monument in memory of James Lewis Cates, a young Black man from Chapel Hill stabbed on the University campus by a member of a white motorcycle gang while police officers watched, and William Murphey, a Black man murdered by a white state trooper in Ayden, North Carolina. Because both men’s murders were painful instances of anti-Black violence in North Carolina, the rallying point of the Confederate Monument was chosen to highlight that visible racism.
71dec_memorial-for-james-cates-photos_blackink_silentsamOrganization: Black Student Movement
Date: 12/1/1971
Document Type: Photograph
Creator: Leslie Todd, Phil McAlpin, John Hankins
Document Collection: Black Ink
Campus Space: McCorkle Place
Citation: “Blacks stage memorial for James Cates and William Murphey.” Black Ink. December 1971. Page 5.