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McCorkle Place

McCorkle Place is the memorial nexus of the University and the campus’s symbolic front lawn. Within the space, there are almost a dozen monuments and memorials fundamental to the University’s lore and traditions. McCorkle Place and its role as a space for racial justice campus activism has been determined largely by only two monuments–the Confederate Monument and the Unsung Founders Memorial–within the space.

McCorkle Place, in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Image Collection Collection #P0004, North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Organization: Freedom Legacy Project, Black Student Movement, BCC Movement, UNC Housekeepers Association, Real Silent Sam Coalition, Campaign for Historical Accuracy and Truth, Students Seeking Historical Truth

Space Use: Open Space

Spatial Organizing Approach: Reclamation

Date Created: 1789

Campus Space: McCorkle Place

Citation: Black Freedom Monument Description in the John Kenyon Chapman Papers #5441, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.