Steele Building

When the first Black students desegregated the University in the summer of 1951, the four male law students lived on an entirely separate floor of Steele Building, at the time a residence hall. Forty-five years later, Steele Building played another role in racial justice movements when Students Seeking Historical Truth identified it as one in a number of buildings on the campus named to honor slave-owners and white supremacists.

Organization: Students Seeking Historical Truth

Space Use: Administrative

Spatial Organizing Approach: Contestation

Date Created: 1921

Campus Space: South Campus

Citation: Saunders Hall Anti-Klan decoration, presentation, and speak-out, October 1999 in the John Kenyon Chapman Papers #5441, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.