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
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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
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
Hamilton Hall
In 1972, the new social sciences building opened, named for Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton, a longtime professor of historyContinue Reading
Mitchell Hall
Beginning in 1995, Yonni Chapman began to compile the histories of numerous spaces around the campus to explore “the celebrationContinue Reading
Wilson Library
Wilson Library, which holds the University Library’s special collections, is a crucial site for students to research the history ofContinue Reading
Venable Hall
As the effects of the Great Depression came to Chapel Hill following the 1929 stock market crash, the University threatenedContinue Reading
Murphey Hall
Students Seeking Historical Truth, the first student organization that formed around issues relating to the University’s history with racial injustice,Continue Reading
Manning Hall
Manning Hall, the original site of the University’s law school, served during the first Foodworkers’ Strike in 1969 as aContinue Reading
Swain Hall
Beginning in 1995, Yonni Chapman began to compile the histories of numerous spaces around the campus to explore “the celebrationContinue Reading