In 1995, Yonni Chapman organized the Freedom Legacy Project (FLP) to be a central resource space for social justice movements in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. A fact sheet, researched and written by Chapman for FLP, compiles the histories of numerous spaces around the campus to explore “the celebration of slavery, the Confederacy, and white supremacy that is embodied in the names of university buildings and its most prominent public monument, ‘Silent Sam.'” The spaces listed on this fact sheet have served as point of reference for other student organizations mobilized against the racialized campus landscape. One of these spaces, Smith Hall, is named for “General Benjamin Smith…governor and wealthy slave owner from Brunswick County.”
In 1995, Yonni Chapman organized the Freedom Legacy Project (FLP) to be a central resource space for social justice movements in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. A fact sheet, researched and written by Chapman for FLP, compiles the histories of numerous spaces around the campus to explore “the celebration of slavery, the Confederacy, and white supremacy that is embodied in the names of university buildings and its most prominent public monument, ‘Silent Sam.'” The spaces listed on this fact sheet have served as point of reference for other student organizations mobilized against the racialized campus landscape. One of these spaces, Smith Hall, is named for “General Benjamin Smith…governor and wealthy slave owner from Brunswick County.”
Organization: Freedom Legacy Project
Space Use: Academic
Spatial Organizing Approach: Contestation
Date Created: 1851
Campus Space: Saunders Hall
Citation: Fess Up Silent Sam Fact Sheet in the John Kenyon Chapman Papers #5441, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.