
Blanche Brown on archival records for Saunders Hall movement
Excerpt Description: Blanche Brown details her discovery of an archival record that stated William Saunders's ...
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Blanche Brown on performance art as engagement tactic
Excerpt Description: Blanche Brown explains how the Real Silent Sam Coalition used performance tactics to ...
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Blanche Brown on the history of student engagement in campus activism
Excerpt Description: Blanche Brown chronicles how student engagement with justice movements has changed over time ...
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Blanche Brown on the institutional role of the University for its students
Excerpt Description: Blanche Brown describes how the University's founding as an institution for North Carolina's ...
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Blanche Brown on the reincarnations of student organizations around racialized geographies
Excerpt Description: Blanche Brown explains the various reincarnations of student groups that have organized around ...
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Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes, 1920
Document Description: In the early spring semester of 2015, Blanche Brown, a member of the ...
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Call for Racial Justice at the University of North Carolina, to Chancellor Moeser and the University Community
Document Description: Created by the Freedom Legacy Project, this petition argued for Chancellor James Moeser and ...
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Campaign for Historical Accuracy and Truth Notes on Beliefs and Goals
Document Description: These notes, taken by Yonni Chapman, outline the statement of beliefs and goals ...
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Campaign for Historical Accuracy and Truth Statement of Purpose
Document Description: This statement of purpose for the Campaign for Historical Accuracy and Truth was ...
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Chris Faison on the evolution of the Black Student Movement
Excerpt Description: Chris Faison describes how the political engagement of the Black Student Movement has ...
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Counter Cartographies Collective #KickOutTheKKK Map
Document Description: Counter Cartographies Collective made this map in support of the #KickOutTheKKK rally held at ...
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Covering Up Saunders Hall Sign
Document Description: In May 2015, the Board of Trustees voted to remove William Saunders’ name ...
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Decoration of Saunders Hall by Students Seeking Historical Truth
Document Description: The first student organization that formed around issues relating to the University’s history ...
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Donelle Boose on finding your people in activism
Excerpt Description: Donelle Boose details the need for students engaged in activism to find like-minded ...
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Donelle Boose on institutional pressure and preservation
Excerpt Description: Donelle Boose explains that the need for institutional self-preservation operates against student activism ...
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Donelle Boose on racial justice as workers rights
Excerpt Description: Donelle Boose explains how CHAT tied together movements for justice, working for racial ...
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Donelle Boose on the Black community of Chapel Hill
Excerpt Description: Donelle Boose states the obvious responsibility of students to recognize the Black community ...
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Donelle Boose on the legacy of Yonni Chapman
Excerpt Description: Donelle Boose illustrates the personality and purpose-driven work of her friend, Yonni Chapman, ...
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Donelle Boose on UNC as a microcosm of the United States
Excerpt Description: Donelle Boose describes how her feelings about UNC-Chapel Hill changed from positive and ...
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Donelle Boose on using the legacy of the past
Excerpt Description: Donelle Boose explains how learning from past justice movements should inform the questions ...
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Erica Smiley on collectively leveraging student power in social movements
Excerpt Description: Erica Smiley recounts the moment in which she was transformed by the idea ...
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Erica Smiley on self-empowerment and the fight against tuition hikes
Excerpt Description: Erica Smiley remembers the moment in which she utilized her power as a ...
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Erica Smiley on the importance of organizing North Carolina
Excerpt Description: Erica Smiley describes her relationship to the state of North Carolina and the ...
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Erica Smiley on the importance of the history of the Black Student Movement
Excerpt Description: Erica Smiley explains the uniqueness of the Black Student Movement as partially directed ...
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Fess Up Silent Sam!
Document Description: This document collects a number of buildings and spaces on the campus and ...
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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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Hurston Hall Banner
Document Description: On the last day of classes for the spring 2015 semester, members of ...
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Kendall Luton on needing spaces for Black students on campus
Excerpt Description: Kendall Luton explains what he feels like to be the only Black student ...
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Mars Earle on creating social spaces within and outside the movement
Excerpt Description: Mars Earle describes the creation of "women's nights," social events which brought together ...
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Mars Earle on learning the history of UNC-Chapel Hill
Excerpt Description: Mars Earle explains how they learned the history of the University at the ...
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Mars Earle on movement leadership through generations of student organizing
Excerpt Description: Mars Earle describes how the movement to rename Saunders Hall prioritized the leadership ...
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Mars Earle on the joy of a party for Black students on Polk Place
Excerpt Description: Mars Earle details a party for Black students held on Polk Place on ...
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Michelle Brown on the naming of Carolina Hall
Excerpt Description: Michelle Brown remembers the renaming of Saunders Hall and the activism of the ...
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Omololu Babatunde on the invocation of Zora Neale Hurston Hall
Excerpt Description: Omololu Babatunde recounts the history of Zora Neale Hurston's presence on the UNC-Chapel ...
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Omololu Babatunde on the possibility of Hurston Hall
Excerpt Description: Omololu Babatunde explains that much of collective memory of efforts to rename Saunders ...
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On the Wake of Emancipation Campaign Protest
Document Description: The On the Wake of Emancipation Campaign was created by Kristi Booker, the ...
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On the Wake of Emancipation Demands
Document Description: The On the Wake of Emancipation Campaign was created by Kristi Booker, the ...
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Presentation of the Mary Smith-Elizabeth Brook Human Rights Award
Document Description: The Campaign for Historical Accuracy and Truth raised $700 in funds for the ...
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Proposal for New Plaque on Saunders Hall
Document Description: This document proposes wording for a new plaque to be placed on Saunders ...
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Questions about University History from the Freedom Legacy Project
Document Description: These notes, taken by Yonni Chapman, list a number of ideas for research ...
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Rally to support the African-American Studies Department
Document Description: In the fall of 2014, the University-appointed independent investigator Kenneth Wainstein issued what ...
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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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Students Seeking Historical Truth Decoration of Saunders Hall
Document Description: The first student organization that formed around issues relating to the University’s history ...
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Students Seeking Historical Truth Presentation to the Black Student Movement
Document Description: The first student organization that formed around issues relating to the University’s history ...
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Students Seeking Historical Truth Speak Out
Document Description: The first student organization that formed around issues relating to the University’s history ...
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Students Seeking Historical Truth Speak Out Response from White Student
Document Description: The first student organization that formed around issues relating to the University’s history ...
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Taylor Webber-Fields on Black students activating internal power to create change
Excerpt Description: Taylor Webber-Fields states her desire for all Black students to know that they ...
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Taylor Webber-Fields on creating a different kind of Tar Heel
Excerpt Description: Taylor Webber-Fields explains that the Real Silent Sam Coalition was significant in that ...
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Taylor Webber-Fields on organizing as a way to restore voice to Black students
Excerpt Description: Taylor Webber-Fields explains that the movement to rename Saunders Hall was more about ...
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Taylor Webber-Fields on the collective creation of language based on shared experience
Excerpt Description: Taylor Webber-Fields explains the importance of Black students needing to collectively create a ...
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Taylor Webber-Fields on the movement to give voice to Black students
Excerpt Description: Taylor Webber-Fields remembers the "Speaking Back to Wainstein Rally" was a space to ...
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This Is What Saunders Would Do To Me
Document Description: In the spring semester of 2015, members of the Real Silent Sam Coalition ...
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Transcription of Board of Trustees Meeting Regarding Renaming Saunders Hall
Document Description: Three members of the Real Silent Sam Coalition--Taylor Webber-Fields, Omololu Babatunde, and Dylan ...
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University Buildings: Racist Pasts and Current Meanings Panel Flyer
Document Description: Students Seeking Historical Truth was founded by Kristi Booker, a president of the ...
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