Silent Sam

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• SOURCE: The Progressive Pulse
  1/31/20
  

  UNC Historian Cecelia Moore delves into true history of “Silent Sam” in court brief

  This week UNC alumni and donors — and a prominent former university historian — filed briefs in the case insisting the the university will have to face the historical facts and answer those complicated questions if it intends to give the “Silent Sam” monument to the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/15/19
  

  Lawsuit seeks to overturn Silent Sam settlement at UNC

  A settlement announced abruptly by the University of North Carolina System and its board of governors last month gives the North Carolina division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans all rights to the statue, bans the monument from any of the 14 counties with a UNC institution and creates a $2.5 million independent charitable trust for its preservation. 

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• SOURCE: The Daily Tar Heel
  6/4/19
  

  History on hold: University pauses the History Task Force work including Silent Sam

  Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz said the task force is currently inactive as he game-plans its future. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/20/19
  

  Fate of Confederate Monuments Is Stalled by Competing Legal Battles

  Almost 154 years after the end of the Civil War, the country is still quarreling — in state capitols and courtrooms, on college campuses and around town squares — over how, or whether, to commemorate the side that lost.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  12-17-2018
  

  Historians Should End Silence on Silent Sam

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  It’s precisely because the statue embodies white supremacy that it should remain on the campus, in a history center that tells its full and hateful story. And my fellow historians should be the first people to say that.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  12-14-2018
  

  North Carolina Board Rejects Chapel Hill’s Controversial Plan for Silent Sam

  Silent Sam’s fate remains uncertain.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  12-7-2018
  

  Silent Sam Protesters at Chapel Hill Embrace a New Tactic: a ‘Grade Strike’

  Just as the fall semester is set to close, activists say, at least 79 teaching assistants and instructors have joined a rare “grade strike,” pledging to withhold more than 2,000 final grades unless the university meets their conditions.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-7-18
  

  Black faculty members at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill object to reinstalling “Silent Sam”

  It would be a rebuke to every black member of the university community.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  8-27-18
  

  Duke history professors ask to rename their building

  It honors the white supremacist who dedicated UNC’s Silent Sam statue.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  8-29-18
  

  Silent Sam Was Toppled. Yet He Still Looms Over Campus.

  Days after the toppled bronze monument was put on a dump truck and driven into the rainy darkness to an undisclosed location, the hold it has over campus remains as powerful, if not stronger, than ever.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  8-21-18
  

  Silent Sam No Longer Stands, But …

  The saga of UNC’s confederate statue is far from over.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  8-21-18
  

  For Historians, the Business of Studying Monuments Like UNC’s Silent Sam Takes a Toll

  On campuses with Confederate statues, historians are living artifacts to interrogate.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  8-21-18
  

  ‘Silent Sam is down’: Crowd topples Confederate statue at UNC

  A crowd toppled a Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina on Monday night, with cheers and smoke bombs filling the air.