Peace and Justice Plaza
The Town of Chapel Hill dedicated the Peace and Justice Plaza, located in front of the old Chapel Hill CourthouseContinue Reading
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Granville Towers
Beginning in the mid-1960s, Granville Towers, a privately-owned dormitory, offered alternative housing for many students who would otherwise be assignedContinue Reading
Greenlaw Wall
The wall in front of Greenlaw Hall facing the Undergraduate Library became an informal gathering space for Black students beginningContinue Reading
Hurston Hall
In January 2015, the Real Silent Sam Coalition, which had been organizing to remove William Saunders’s name from Saunders Hall,Continue Reading
Carolina Hall
After a two year long movement to remove William Saunders’s name from Saunders Hall, the University’s Board of Trustees votedContinue Reading
Upendo Lounge in SASB North
Originally located on the first floor of Chase Hall, Upendo Lounge operated as a significant social space for Black studentsContinue Reading
Unsung Founders Memorial
The Unsung Founders Memorial was designed to honor of the “men and women of color who helped raise the firstContinue Reading
Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
A progressive student-led movement in the early 1990s to build a free-standing building for the Black Cultural Center (BCC) createdContinue Reading
Horton Residence Hall
George Moses Horton, a former slave and the first Black author published in the South, traveled eight miles to theContinue Reading
Cheek-Clark Building
On September 17, 1998, dozens of members of the University community, representing housekeepers, administrators, professors, and trustees, gathered to rededicateContinue Reading