2.2.21 | Race and Reckoning, Silent Sam
A lingering question from the Silent Sam saga — how the state’s university system negotiated the disposition of the statue on the Chapel Hill campus with a Confederate advocacy group — has been answered in a legal settlement.
The return of $2.5 million given to the Sons of Confederate Veterans before the Silent Sam settlement was vacated will be a little more than $80,000 short. The same judge who canceled the UNC System’s deal with the Confederate group ruled on… read more
The Sons of Confederate Veterans have 45 days to return the Confederate monument known as Silent Sam to the custody of the state university system. read more
A judge has thrown out the settlement that made $2.5 million of Carolina’s money available to the Sons of Confederate Veterans to relocate the Confederate monument known as Silent Sam. read more
The group filed a court brief contending that the Sons of Confederate Veterans did not have legal standing to negotiate the deal for UNC’s Confederate monument and up to $2.5 million to maintain it. read more
Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz has asked officials of the 17-campus UNC System to provide more information about their settlement with a Confederate advocacy group. read more
Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz said the Chapel Hill campus is the source of the up to $2.5 million that the UNC System Board of Governors has authorized to be available to the Sons of the Confederate Veterans. read more
The Confederate monument that stood at the University’s front door for 105 years is in the hands of an advocacy group that plans to display it on private property. read more
The Confederate statue has been given to the Sons of Confederate Veterans by the UNC System Board of Governors in a settlement of a lawsuit filed by that group. read more
Harry Smith, chair of the UNC System Board of Governors, told a news conference Wednesday that he thinks restoring UNC’s Confederate monument to its original site just off Franklin Street is “not the right path.” read more