[34] Most of the rest of the cost was covered by alumni donations. Police, who cordoned off the area around the pedestal, arrested one person who concealed his or her face in the public protest (prohibited in North Carolina). [125], A Community Policing Advisory Committee meets monthly to receive feedback concerning the Campus Police. Owner. "The possibility of a breach of the peace is high, and with it the likelihood that Silent Sam could suffer substantial damage."[70]. The Black Student Movement strongly opposes the recommendation made by Chancellor Folt and the UNC Board of Trustees today to reinstall the Confederate monument known as “Silent Sam” on our university’s campus. Silent Sam was based off unarmed Union soldier Daniel A. Bean, Wilson created a "silent" statue by not including a cartridge box on the Confederate soldier's belt so he cannot fire his gun. [78][89], On September 21, the day before the North Carolina Historical Commission was to meet, UNC-CH issued a press release. This disparaging and marginalizing symbol has no place at the core of an inclusive learning environment.... We also believe that the message it sends undercuts the University's mission "to teach a diverse community of undergraduate, graduate, and professional students to become the next generation of leaders. [31], In 2003, Gerald Horne, at that time director of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, in a letter to The Daily Tar Heel, called the monument "an eyesore". On September 21, 2018, Mayor Hemminger and the entire town council wrote Folt and other UNC leaders: Prominent placement of the Silent Sam monument at McCorkle Place in downtown Chapel Hill is an offense to the entire Chapel Hill community, including African-American students, faculty members, university employees, local residents, and business persons who call Chapel Hill home, as well as to returning alumni and the countless fans and tourists who visit our Town every year. At the August meeting there were 2 attendees, "who wanted to speak about Silent Sam". Sunday School Lessons and Addresses, 1896–1923 and undated. [64], On October 12, 2015, University Day, a group of about two dozen students, calling itself The Real Silent Sam Coalition, interrupted a speech by Chancellor Folt, shouting "Tear it down, tear it down, or we'll shout you down". [15][79][80] Cooper responded to Spellings, saying UNC could remove the statue if there was "a real risk to public safety," but did not himself say that the risk existed. [99] On the same day the email, accompanied by a press release, was sent to The Daily Tar Heel, which published them. Silent Sam has been under fire a long time. [26][34] The Daughters originally were slated to give $1,500 of the cost of the statue,[26] though their success at fundraising led the university to ask for them to cover $2,500 by 1911. "[132], The State Bureau of Investigation agreed to help UNC police with their investigation into the toppling. In November 2020, a tree was planted at the site of the statue. The University and the state should offer magnanimous terms to those students and allow them to return to school unpunished. This page was last edited on 13 December 2020, at 19:57. 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I mean, it feels biblical. "[67], The same day, UNC chancellor Carol Folt, UNC president Margaret Spellings, UNC board-of-governors chairman Lou Bissette, and UNC trustee chairman Haywood Cochrane wrote to Governor Roy Cooper,[73] warning of "significant safety and security threats"[74][75] concerning Silent Sam: "it is only a matter of time before an attempt is made to pull down Silent Sam in much the same manner we saw in Durham ... An attempt may occur at any time. Chancellor Folt asked people not to come to these events for safety reasons. ", "Chapel Hill mayor asks for Silent Sam to be removed from UNC campus", "Cooper tells UNC leaders they can remove Silent Sam if there's 'imminent threat, "UNC details security costs near Silent Sam for the last year", "Gov. [205] In a September poll, 76% of swing voters and 93% of Republicans disapproved of the toppling; as did 44% of Democrats, versus 41% who approved. [94] This discovery led to another rally outside South Building on November 14. While we respect that protesters have the right to demonstrate, they do not have the right to damage state property. [75] Silent Sam was under 24-hour video surveillance via a monitor in the campus Police Department.[69][105]. "[98] "Faculty, staff, students and graduates from the UNC School of Social Work", in a letter reported on December 15, added their support, saying "Whatever else the memorial may symbolize to some, it was erected to glorify White people in the South, and, by extension, to carry on the subjugation of Black people. [13], Beginning in the 1960s, the statue faced opposition on the grounds of its racist message, and it was vandalized several times during the civil rights movement. [2][3][16] A statement from Chancellor Folt said the statue's original location was "a cause for division and a threat to public safety," and that she was seeking input on a plan for a "safe, legal and alternative" new location. Attendance was reported to be 1,000. [124], On University Day, October 12, 2018, Chancellor Folt issued an apology for the university's connections to slavery, saying: "I reaffirm our university's commitment to facing squarely and working to right the wrongs of history so they are never again inflicted".[134]. "Returning the statue to the UNC-Chapel Hill campus would reaffirm the values of white supremacy that motivated its original installation," the resolution said. At the unveiling on June 2, 1913, local industrialist and UNC Trustee Julian Carr gave a speech espousing white supremacy,[3][4][5] while Governor Locke Craig,[6] UNC President Francis Venable[7][8] and members of the UDC[9] praised the sacrifices made by students who volunteered to fight for the Confederacy. [12][13] The earliest known use of the name "Silent Sam" is from 1954, in the campus newspaper The Daily Tar Heel. [84], The UNC Board of Governors also criticized Folt for her request of the Governor, saying that the request "was a 'wholly unacceptable' unilateral decision by Spellings and Bissette". "[82], On August 22, 2017, at the beginning of the school year, a "Rally for Removal of Silent Sam", announced on a poster describing the day as "the first day of Silent Sam's last semester", attracted about 800 people. [31], The monument was funded by the university, alumni, and the UDC. Silent Sam had long been a source of controversy on the Chapel Hill, N.C., campus, but the debate was further inflamed by the fatal eruption of racist violence a year earlier in Charlottesville, Va. Doucette, 39, rents an office in the former Durham public library on East Main Street, next to First Presbyterian Church. Cooper gives UNC green light to remove 'Silent Sam', UNC holds off, citing 2015 law", "UNC board members criticize leaders' handling of Silent Sam statue", "Noisy protest of Silent Sam statue targets chancellor", "After Duke incident, rival UNC considers whether to remove Confederate statue", "AG Stein wants Confederate monuments down or moved; awaits request for advisory opinion on law", "Top lawmaker says no plans to change NC law protecting Confederate monuments", "NC Historical Commission Agrees To Keep 3 Confederate Monuments On Capitol Grounds, Reinterpret Them", "UNC's Chancellor Is a Consensus Builder. Police stand guard after the confederate statue known as Silent Sam was toppled by protesters on campus at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., Monday, Aug. 20, 2018. Ruptures vol. Others are accessible in Wilson Library. On September 1, 2011, a group calling itself the Real Silent Sam Movement held a protest "to attract attention to the statue's history". [10], The program for the unveiling of the monument started at 3:30 pm, on June 2, 1913. In this brief cartoon by the educational film division of the Ford Motor Company (Henry Ford was staunchly anti-union), farmer "Uncle Sam" points out bounteous harvests of grain, the "fine results of our labor" that symbolize American institutions. [189][190], On August 28, 41 department chairs in the College of Arts and Sciences sent a letter to Chancellor Folt opposing the return of Silent Sam to its pedestal or any prominent location on campus. Asked if Folt reached out or was planning to reach out to Cooper in response to the letter, Joanne Peters Denny, a UNC spokesperson, said these conversations were not happening: "We don't make our policy decisions based on threats from unauthenticated, anonymous groups". [143] Several speakers alleged that the police were more lenient with demonstrators from outside the university than they were with student participants. "[59][61] On September 9, 2015, the monument was blindfolded with "a Confederate bandanna". [67] "Silent Sam has been a target for protest and vandalism for decades. [118] Holding signs and chanting "stand up, fight back" and "This is what democracy looks like", some protesters stamped on the statue or tried to cover it with dirt. Silent Sam)", "Confederate Monument, UNC (Chapel Hill)", "Julian Shakespeare Carr Papers, 1892–1923. Here's what to do about them", "Soldiers' Monument. I performed the pleasing duty in the immediate presence of the entire garrison, and for thirty nights afterwards slept with a double-barrel shot gun under my head. [22] The pedestal base and inscription plaques were removed in January 2019, with a statement from Chancellor Folt citing public safety. They received applause from some faculty present. UNC eventually had to give $500 to reach the contracted total of $7,500. [47] In the early 1970s, the monument was the site of several demonstrations by the Black Student Movement. The continued presence of the monument is damaging to all of us who share this campus, but disproportionately jeopardizes the wellbeing of students with marginalized identities. The actions or inaction on August 20, 2018, of the UNC Campus Police and the Chapel Hill Police Department, which differed from their actions at the 2017 protest,[68] have been the subject of many comments. 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The Silent Sam statue was erected to honor alumni of the university who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War. ... "The letter exuded a weakness and hand wringing that does not accurately reflect the Board's opinion about how the potential of campus unrest should be treated", said the letter, which was dated August 22. [42], This speech has been described by UNC history professor W. Fitzhugh Brundage as one in which Carr "unambiguously urged his audience to devote themselves to the maintenance of white supremacy with the same vigor that their Confederate ancestors had defended slavery. [27] University president David Lowry Swain had petitioned the Confederacy to exclude students in their final two years from conscription, and this was granted in 1863, but revoked a year later. [66], Already in August 2017, it was reported that Silent Sam "has been vandalized multiple times in recent years". They said the letter to the governor should have been reviewed and approved by the entire board, instead of only the board's committee chairs. Silent Sam is sitting in storage now. I watched it groan and shiver and come asunder. As of September 7, 2018, only one person had been charged with participating in the actual toppling of the Silent Sam statue. Series 2. This website is a guide to primary sources, held in the University Archives and other Wilson Library collections, about the planning and dedication of Silent Sam and the discussion surrounding the monument in the years since. 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[35] Like the earlier sculpture, Wilson used a northerner, Harold Langlois of Boston, as his model. Silent Sam honors Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War. [69], On August 17, 2017, Chapel Hill mayor Pam Hemminger sent a letter to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, requesting that it petition the North Carolina Historical Commission to immediately remove Silent Sam from campus "in the interest of public safety." [60], On the night of August 17–18, 2015, the statue, along with the Chapel Hill Post Office, were defaced with the words "Who is Sandra Bland? The statue was surrounded by police in riot gear. The $387,000 remainder was spent on law enforcement personnel costs. Yet He Still Looms Over Campus", "U.S. put its Silent Sams on pedestals. [116], On August 25 and 30 and on September 8, follow-up demonstrations were held at the site by supporters and critics of the toppling of the statue. [72][86] Thousands signed a change.org petition to remove it. [72][79] Folt replied that despite the governor's advice, the university did not think it could say it was a "risk to public safety" in the sense intended by the 2015 law,[75][81] which refers to "a building inspector or similar official" making that determination, "where the statue itself poses a physical hazard. Such racist symbolism is antithetical to the ethos of this vibrant, public university. The statue was toppled by protesters, and later that night removed to a secure location by university authorities. The University Band played Dixie while "students formally accepted the monument",[41] and the program concluded with a rendition by a quartet of "Tenting on the Old Camp Ground".[12][40]. BSM’s 1968 23 Demands; BSM’s 1997 22 Additional Demands; Carolina Indian Circle; Mi Pueblo; Real Silent Sam Coalition; Students for Justice in Palestine; Take Action Chapel Hill; Silence Sam; EMPHEMERA. $7,500 in 1913 had roughly the same purchasing power as $193,500 in 2018. A Four-Part Plan presented by UNC-Chapel Hill to the UNC Board of Governors", "Chancellor Folt announces resignation, orders Confederate Monument pedestal to be removed intact", "University of North Carolina Gives 'Silent Sam' Statue to Confederate Group", "Judge Voids UNC's Controversial Settlement Over Confederate Statue 'Silent Sam, "A Nursery of Patriotism: the University at War, 1861–1945—Civil War—Conscription", "A guide to resources about UNC's Confederate monument: Timeline", "UNC's Silent Sam and Honoring the Confederacy", "A guide to resources about UNC's Confederate monument: Archival Resources", "Civil War 'Silent Sentinels' still on guard in North, South", "Confederate Monument (a.k.a. [25], The university subsequently sought help from the judge to recover the statue and money from the SCV. [10][11] The program for the unveiling simply referred to the statue as "the Confederate Monument",[12] with the name "Soldiers Monument" also being used around the same time. Its beauty and its grandeur are not limited by the genius of the sculptor. [28], In 1907, the North Carolina chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) decided that its next major goal was to "be the erection, on the campus at the State University, of a monument to the students and faculty, who went out from its walls in 1861 to fight and die for the South. In 1937 this story was called an "old local wisecrack". It is located on McCorkle Place, the university's upper quad; facing Franklin Street on the northern edge of campus. [34] The statue was planned to be in place for the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War in 1911. [26] Raising funds to pay for the statue delayed the project by two years. On the night of August 20, 2018, the day before the 2018–19 academic year began, another "Remove Silent Sam" rally was held,[16] beginning with speakers at 7 P.M. The University laid upon the altar of Dixie the fairest and bravest of the world. [125] The August 30 demonstration was convened as a "Silent Sam Twilight Service" by Alamance County Take Back Alamance County, a group designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. As new documents related to the Confederate Monument are acquired or discovered, they will be added to the "Archival Resources" section of the guide. Mayor of Chapel Hill Pam Hemminger had written the university on August 17, 2017, requesting that Silent Sam be moved (see above). [198] It was removed by Dropbox due to a complaint of violation of the DMCA,[199] but subsequently republished by news sources. The settlement was ordered five minutes after the response was filed. "[88], On September 6, 2017, demonstrators chanted and made noise with drums, pots and pans, birthday party horns, and "anything they could get their hands on" in front of South Building, where Chancellor Folt's office is. In a statement on February 27, "the group said they received word...that Folt is preparing to ask Gov. Silent Sam was a good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. "[102] The act was publicized in advance and news media and the UNC Police were present. [118] In contrast with the 2017 rally, police stayed in the background,[68] and video of the protest was reported as showing police moving away from the monument shortly before protesters pulled it down. [138], At an earlier September 5 meeting on the campus, "residents" asked the town to reconsider its relationship with the Greensboro Police Department, whose Special Operations Division was called in to assist with crowd control during the August 30 protest. It does allow an object to be permanently relocated, provided that it is "relocated to a site of similar prominence, honor, visibility, availability, and access, ...within the boundaries of the jurisdiction from which it was relocated." Dump it in a hog lagoon. [2], Establishing a Confederate monument at a Southern university became a goal of the North Carolina chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) in 1907. [186], On September 4, 2018, a letter from 450 UNC faculty members, supporting Folt's preference for relocating the statue, was sent to the Board of Governors, Board of Trustees, and key administrators. Its presence continues to legitimize and incite violence, dehumanization, and oppression. It was the subject of protests in … "[187] On the same day, 8 alumni co-chairs of a fundraising committee, most former members of the Trustees or the Board of Visitors, sent a letter to the Board of Trustees: This is an "increasingly dangerous situation impacting our students and faculty and threatening to tarnish the reputation of our nation’s first public university, as well as the State of North Carolina.... Now that Silent Sam is down, we are united in agreeing that it should not return to its former location. [63] They were met by three times as many counterdemonstrators, "most of them students". The statue has been in storage since it was toppled last August by protesters who said it was a racist symbol. According to Brundage, Carr's phrase "the four years immediately succeeding the war" is a clear reference to the Reconstruction era, when the Ku Klux Klan, working to restore the dominance of traditional white hierarchy in the South, terrorized blacks and white Republicans. The North Carolina Attorney General, Josh Stein, also made a statement supporting the removal or relocation of "statues that...promote white supremacy". They claimed to be from the College of Arts and Sciences, the Medical School, the School of Public Health, and the School of Law, and quoted Edmund Burke: "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing". The Governor of North Carolina, Locke Craig, also spoke; regarding the service of students who died in the war: In 1861 these students went to war. Many of the resources listed here have been digitized and are available for easy access online. [195], On October 12, the Faculty Council, UNC's main faculty body, passed a resolution requesting the permanent removal of the statue and its base. [83], Folt received considerable criticism from UNC-CH students and faculty for not taking a stronger position on the removal of Silent Sam. It's thundering and starting to rain. [197], This settlement offer came on November 27, 2019, two minutes after the Sons of Confederate Veterans sued the UNC system and its Board of Governors. "[85], The UNC Board of Trustees then released a statement supporting Folt, saying: "Above all, regardless of the circumstance, the chancellor has a responsibility to the people of North Carolina to uphold all state laws. [119] WUNC Managing Editor Dave DeWitt, who was present, called it "a well-planned and executed effort".[121]. "[144], A student documentary about the statue, "Silence Sam", was shown on November 30, 2018, at Duke University, under the sponsorship of Duke's Center for Documentary Studies. Developed by the University Archives at UNC Chapel Hill, 2016. This racist statue has got to go" and "Tear it down", protestors marched to the official residence of University President Margaret Spellings, briefly blocking traffic on Franklin Street, Chapel Hill's main street, which adjoins the oldest part of the campus, where Silent Sam was located. With this new law, it is relatively easy for many individuals to speculate about its meaning or offer possible loopholes as ways to operate around the law. "[91], In November, 2017, Maya Little, graduate student in history and leader of Silent Sam protests during 2017–2018,[92] posted documentation of the University's Police Department having used an undercover officer to gather information on the protestors,[93] which the university confirmed. "[90] (The decision, which arrived two days after Silent Sam was toppled, was negative, as the North Carolina Historical Commission found that the law did not allow them to approve the request. [59], In late July 2015, the North Carolina General Assembly passed SL 2015–170, the Cultural History Artifact Management and Patriotism Act of 2015, which states that "An object of remembrance [defined as "monument, memorial, or work of art"] located on public property may not be permanently removed". And I think it will go. ", "UNC Center for Civil Rights Director Theodore M. Shaw Statement on Removal of Statue Known as, University of North Carolina School of Law, "Silent Sam from a historian's perspective", "The unfinished story of Silent Sam, from 'Soldier Boy' to fallen symbol of a painful past", "Former UNC chancellor says he wished he'd taken down Silent Sam", "Former UNC chancellor's granddaughter among 14 now charged in Silent Sam protests", "Broken Tributes to a Morally Bankrupt Cause", "Behind 'Silent Sam's' toppling at UNC, a lesson for South Carolina, historians say", "Make It Right Project Responds to the North Carolina Historical Commission Vote to Keep Confederate Monuments Standing", "Daughters of Confederacy rejects Chatham County monument talks. On August 21 Chancellor Folt issued a message urging students not to attend the rally scheduled for the next day, "considering the potential for a highly charged atmosphere and the very real possibility for confrontation with outside groups. [48], In 1986, the statue was temporarily removed and shipped to Cincinnati, where it was cleaned and restored by bronze specialists Eleftherios and Mercene Karkadoulias. [136][137][138][139] At a hearing on September 20, one person's charge was dropped, and that of another person was to be dropped following completion of community service.[136]. [54] That group, also known as the Real Silent Sam Committee, "campaigned over the past two years [2011–2013] to replace the current plaque with one that tells what they call "the true history of the confederate soldier. The bronze statue of a Confederate soldier — long known as Silent Sam — stood on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus from 1913 until it was pulled down by protestors in 2018. This was discovered on November 2, 2017[140] when students saw the former "auto mechanic" in police uniform. [105], In July, 2018, Silent Sam, covered by a red X and the words "North Carolina needs a monumental change", was depicted in Raleigh on two identical billboards, on Blount Street near Hoke Street and on North Raleigh Boulevard near the intersection with Yonkers Road. "[3] A newscaster on the scene described the mood as "jubilation". [67][87], Former UNC-CH Chancellor James Moeser, interviewed at the rally, said: "I used to be of the mind that we should contextualize history...but Charlottesville changed my mind." '", 42 UNC faculty members signed a letter published in, 29 faculty members in the Department of History (August 23): "Civil disobedience, particularly among students, has a long and storied history in the United States, especially in the American South. On February 25 a University spokesperson confirmed the letter had been received. "[68], "The push to get UNC to remove the statue...took off in earnest in August 2017",[68] after the proposed removal of Confederate statues in Charlottesville, Virginia led to the Unite the Right rally on August 11–12, and on August 14, the toppling of the Confederate Soldiers Memorial in nearby Durham. [24] However, in February 2020 the settlement was overturned by the judge who originally approved it, who ruled that the SCV lacked standing to bring the lawsuit. [127][128][129] Supporters of Silent Sam were greatly outnumbered by counter-protesters.[130]. "Moreover, to do so would undermine the physical security of all members of our community. The refreshed statue was put back in place six months later. [191], At the end of August, 37 Chapel Hill faith leaders wrote an open letter saying that "returning Silent Sam to its previous location furthers the goal of those who originally put it there: venerating white supremacy, and denigrating people of color."[187][192]. 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