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 white male elite continues toContinue Reading
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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 leadership of the Ku KluxContinue Reading
Shannon Brien on increasing approach of intersectional organizing
Excerpt Description: Shannon Brien describes how learning the legacy of past campus activism can be both discouraging and empowering, andContinue Reading
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 Hill campus in the 1940sContinue Reading
Omololu Babatunde on the possibility of Hurston Hall
Excerpt Description: Omololu Babatunde explains that much of collective memory of efforts to rename Saunders Hall focus only on “studentContinue Reading
Counter Cartographies Collective #KickOutTheKKK Map
Document Description: Counter Cartographies Collective made this map in support of the #KickOutTheKKK rally held at the Confederate Monument in JanuaryContinue Reading
A Collective Response to Anti-Blackness
Document Description: In November 2015, a coalition of student organizations, including members of the Real Silent Sam Coalition delivered “AContinue Reading
Students Protest Pro-Confederate Rally at the Confederate Monument
Document Description: On October 25th, 2015, an organization called “Alamance County Taking Back Alamance County” held a rally on theContinue Reading
Hurston Hall Banner
Document Description: On the last day of classes for the spring 2015 semester, members of the Real Silent Sam CoalitionContinue Reading
Real Silent Sam Coalition Demands, 2015
Document Description: The Real Silent Sam Coalition issued these demands in April 2015, before the decision to rename Saunders HallContinue Reading