Beginning in 1995, Yonni Chapman began to compile 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.'” One of these spaces, Cobb Residence Hall, is “named after Professor Collier Cobb, who in 1906 called Col. William L. Saunders the greatest North Carolinian ever to have lived.”
Beginning in 1995, Yonni Chapman began to compile 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.'” One of these spaces, Cobb Residence Hall, is “named after Professor Collier Cobb, who in 1906 called Col. William L. Saunders the greatest North Carolinian ever to have lived.”
Organization: Freedom Legacy Project
Space Use: Dormitory and Housing
Spatial Organizing Approach: Contestation
Date Created: 1952
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.