McCorkle Place

24 Hour Slave Narrative Readings

Document Description: In October 2015, the Real Silent Sam Coalition held a continuous reading of ...
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A Collective Response to Anti-Blackness

Document Description: In November 2015, a coalition of student organizations, including members of the Real ...
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Black Freedom Monument on McCorkle Place

Document Description: These notes, written by Yonni Chapman, describe an imagined Black freedom monument, which ...
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Can You Hear Us Now?

Document Description: In August 2011, a new organization formed comprised of both students and Chapel ...
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Elaine Massey at the Confederate Monument on MLK Day Photograph

Document Description: Elaine Massey, a housekeeper at the University, holds up a poster that reads ...
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Embodied Unsung Founders Memorial

Document Description: The Real Silent Sam Coalition used visual demonstrations and performance art to engage ...
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First Meeting of the Real Silent Sam Coalition

Document Description: In August 2011, a new organization comprised of both students and Chapel Hill ...
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Freedom Legacy Project Interest Flyer

Document Description: This flyer documents one of the few interest meetings for the Freedom Legacy Project, ...
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Freeze! Silent Sam Cartoon

Document Description: This cartoon in Black Ink from 1991 depicts the University's Confederate Monument, "Silent ...
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Maya Little Contextualizing the Confederate Monument

Document Description: On April 30, 2018, Maya Little, a graduate student in the History Department ...
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Memorial for James Lewis Cates and William Murphey

Document Description: The Black Student Movement rallied in 1971 at the University's Confederate Monument in ...
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Memorial to James Lewis Cates

Document Description: Rallies following the removal of the Confederate Monument in August and October of ...
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Michelle Brown on communication throughout coalition building

Excerpt Description: Michelle Brown explains how difficult communicating across student organizations and interests can be, ...
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Monument to a World Without White Supremacy

Document Description: Around 250 students and community members gathered on August 20, 2018 at the ...
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Real Silent Sam Coalition Demands, 2015

Document Description: The Real Silent Sam Coalition issued these demands in April 2015, before the ...
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Shannon Brien on increasing approach of intersectional organizing

Excerpt Description: Shannon Brien describes how learning the legacy of past campus activism can be ...
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Students Protest Pro-Confederate Rally at the Confederate Monument

Document Description: On October 25th, 2015, an organization called “Alamance County Taking Back Alamance County” ...
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