Saunders Hall
Saunders Hall, home since 1922 to the History Department, and later the Religious Studies and Geography Departments, was named byContinue Reading
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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 giving voice to Black studentsContinue Reading
Michelle Brown on the naming of Carolina Hall
Excerpt Description: Michelle Brown remembers the renaming of Saunders Hall and the activism of the Real Silent Sam Coalition, statingContinue 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
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
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 Su-Chan Mott–spoke to the BoardContinue Reading
Proposal for New Plaque on Saunders Hall
Document Description: This document proposes wording for a new plaque to be placed on Saunders Hall, which would state Saunders’sContinue Reading