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
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Aycock Residence Hall
Beginning in 1995, Yonni Chapman began to compile the histories of numerous spaces around the campus to explore “the celebrationContinue Reading
Saunders Hall
Saunders Hall, home since 1922 to the History Department, and later the Religious Studies and Geography Departments, was named byContinue Reading
Steele Building
When the first Black students desegregated the University in the summer of 1951, the four male law students lived onContinue Reading
Ruffin Residence Hall
Beginning in 1995, Yonni Chapman began to compile the histories of numerous spaces around the campus to explore “the celebrationContinue Reading
Swain Hall
Beginning in 1995, Yonni Chapman began to compile the histories of numerous spaces around the campus to explore “the celebrationContinue Reading
Confederate Monument
The University’s Confederate Monument, which has been known since the 1950s as “Silent Sam,” operated for over a century asContinue Reading
Battle-Vance-Pettigrew Halls
Beginning in 1995, Yonni Chapman began to compile the histories of numerous spaces around the campus to explore “the celebrationContinue Reading
University President’s House
The home of the University’s President on East Franklin Street was the site of a October 12, 1997 protest byContinue Reading
Davie Hall
Beginning in 1995, Yonni Chapman began to compile the histories of numerous spaces around the campus to explore “the celebrationContinue Reading