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(118,316 posts) Mon Oct 12, 2015, 05:42 PM Oct 2015

Students want Confederate memorial removed from UNC’s campus

By Justin Quesinberry, WNCN News
Published: October 12, 2015, 5:50 am
Updated: October 12, 2015, 11:49 am

... The protest comes after the group gathered for 24 hours reading slave narratives at the monument ... Chancellor Carol Folt said she was glad that the students felt comfortable expressing themselves ... Although students want it removed, a new state law would require the act of the General Assembly to remove it.

http://wncn.com/2015/10/12/students-want-confederate-memorial-removed-from-uncs-campus/

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Students want Confederate memorial removed from UNC’s campus (Original Post) struggle4progress Oct 2015 OP

UNC Must Confront Its KKK Legacy struggle4progress Oct 2015 #1

Should UNC’s ‘Silent Sam’ Share the Recent Fate of Confederate Flags? struggle4progress Oct 2015 #2

struggle4progress

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1. UNC Must Confront Its KKK Legacy

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Mon Oct 12, 2015, 05:46 PM

Oct 2015

Michael Muhammad Knight
Feb. 6, 2015

In 1913, during the dedication of a Confederate soldiers’ memorial at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, industrialist Julian Carr praised the monument as a tribute to those UNC alumni who had died in defense of the “Anglo Saxon race.” Boasting of his own participation in that effort, he proudly recalled having “horse-whipped a Negro wench” just 100 yards from where the memorial had been erected ...

http://time.com/3697578/unc-students-protest-kkk-legacy/

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2. Should UNC’s ‘Silent Sam’ Share the Recent Fate of Confederate Flags?

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Mon Oct 12, 2015, 06:01 PM

Oct 2015

By Danny Hooley
Posted June 24, 2015 at 10:52 pm

... “A monument like Silent Sam, for example, was intended to speak to the contemporary generation of young North Carolina men who were attending the University of North Carolina.

“And when Julian Carr gave the dedication speech in 1913, he very explicitly – very unambiguously – linked that monument to the defense of white supremacy” ...

In May, the UNC Board of Trustees voted to rename Saunders Hall as Carolina Hall, and imposed a 16-year freeze on renaming historical buildings, monuments, memorials, and landscapes to allow for education and curation to take effect ...

http://chapelboro.com/news/unc/should-uncs-silent-sam-share-the-recent-fate-of-confederate-flags/

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