Silent Sam
Professor Who Criticized $2.5 Million Plan to Save a Confederate Statue Is Now Being Canceled
The university once planned to build a $2.5 million home for the Silent Sam statue, which was torn down by anti-racist protesters in 2018.
Protesters tore down Confederate statue "Silent Sam," but UNC is bringing it back
University says the statue "has a place" in its history and on campus.
Neo-Confederate rally for "Silent Sam" ends with pepper spray, arrests
Another confrontation over the toppled monument at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
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Watch 200 people knock over Confederate statue “Silent Sam”
Videos posted to Twitter show the statue draped in banners and toppling to the ground Monday night amid cheering and applause.
The University of North Carolina's Silent Sam Statue Represents a Legacy of White Supremacy
The presence of a statue of a Confederate soldier on the UNC campus is an attack upon those who make this place their home and workplace.
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