History of UNC at Chapel Hill

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• Silent Sam - Confederate monument
• UNC's history with slavery
• *The Confederate Monument at the University of North Carolina
  The monument known as Silent Sam stood at the north entrance to campus for more than 100 years. What meaning did it have for the men and women who placed it there? Why does it matter to us today? Explore these questions and more in this digital exhibit by James L. Leloudis, Professor of History, and Cecelia Moore, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with research assistance from Rob Shapard, PhD, and Brian Fennessy, doctoral candidate in History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2017-2019
• Black student who helped desegregate university dies at 80
  Martha Waggoner, Associated Press, The News & Observer, January 2, 2018 LeRoy Frasier, who along with his brother and another high school student was among the first African-American undergraduate students to successfully challenge racial segregation at North Carolina's flagship public university, has died at the age of 80.
• Carolina Digital Repository
• Chancellor’s Task Force on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill History
  is responsible for developing a comprehensive approach to curating and teaching the history of the University.
  In May 2015, the Board of Trustees voted to rename Saunders Hall to Carolina Hall, to develop new curation and education initiatives, and to place a 16-year freeze on renaming historic buildings to provide adequate time for the new efforts to take root.
  Chancellor Carol L. Folt appointed the Task Force to ensure that everyone – students, prospective students, faculty, staff, alumni and visitors – has the opportunity to learn about Carolina’s history and contributions to society.
• Department of Epidemiology history
  Includes the booklet "The UNC Department of Epidemiology: Our First 40 Years,1936-1976" by Judith Winkler and Victor J. Schoenbach, 2018
• Exploring Carolina’s American Indian connections
  Exploring Carolina’s American Indian connections. Scott Jared, The Well, Thursday, November 19th, 2020.
  With an emphasis on listening to North Carolina’s Indigenous population, the Commission on History, Race and a Way Forward is focusing on Carolina’s historical and current connections to American Indians.
  
• Gillings School of Global Public Health history
• History on the Hill
  Resources for Learning About the History of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Guide to UNC History Research, UNC History Online Exhibits, Task Force on UNC History, Chronological List of Events
  
  
• James Cates | Remembering and Reckoning
  Center for the Study of the American South, November 18, 2020
  This Re/Collecting Chapel Hill podcast episode shares the story of James Cates. The episode features Mike Ogle’s research and the voices of community members who knew Cates, including those with him when he died.
• Race, research and reckoning
  Susan Hudson, The Well, Monday, September 14th, 2020
  Panelists at the University’s first Race, Racism and Racial Equity symposium, "The Historical Exploitation of Black and Brown Bodies at UNC: Learning from the Past to Change the Present", discuss how campus buildings, property and even historical archives came at the price of racial exploitation.
• Reclaiming the University of the People
  The dissertation project of Charlotte Fryar, PhD Candidate in UNC's Department of American Studies, Reclaiming the University of the People documents and interprets the history of how Black students and workers engaged in movements for racial justice at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1951 to 2018 challenged the University’s dominant cultural landscape of white supremacy. This documentary website provides a counter-history of UNC-Chapel Hill directed by the legacy of Black freedom striving.
• Sleuths in the Archives
  Kim Weaver Spurr, Carolina Arts & Sciences, the magazine of UNC’s College of Arts & Sciences, Spring 2020, https://magazine.college.unc.edu/
  Fifteen students in historian James Leloudis’ Honors undergraduate research seminar spent last semester in the University Archives, probing letters, financial ledgers and other records, to understand how the institution survived financially, in part, from the sale of enslaved people.
• The Carolina Story: A Virtual Museum of University History
  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the nation's oldest state university. This virtual museum retells its history, with texts and images arranged in roughly chronological exhibits. There is much for the university's friends to take pride in, and other truths that are now painful to remember.
• UNC Diversity and Inclusion history
• University of North Carolina Celebrates 1955 Racial Integration Milestone
  Tom Breen, Associated Press, Diverse: Issues In Higher Education, September 21, 2010
  When John Brandon and the brothers Ralph and LeRoy Frasier became the first three Black undergraduates at Chapel Hill, football games were still segregated by race, as were most public places in North Carolina.... All three were students at Durham’s Hillside High School when they applied to UNC-Chapel Hill in 1955. Their applications were denied, and the Board of Trustees swiftly passed a resolution barring the admission of Blacks as undergraduates. The law school had been integrated four years earlier after a federal lawsuit.
  A federal court in Greensboro then struck down the racist policy for undergraduates, and the three young men – two were 18, while Ralph turned 17 on the day of the court decision – registered for classes.