Monday, February 2, 2015

NC: Students want UNC to rename building named after KKK organizer

Via comment by Anonymous on Robert E. Lee’s Simplicity Sublime

 William Saunders was an 1854 graduate of the University of North Carolina who went on to serve as a colonel in the Civil War and eventually North Carolina's secretary of state. He's also known for helping organize the Ku Klux Klan in the Tar Heel State.

The KKK was organized in response to the Union League. 



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Saunders Hall is a dignified-looking building, made of brick and framed by trees on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's historic Polk Place.
   
Its namesake is William Lawrence Saunders, an 1854 graduate who served as a colonel in the Civil War and eventually went on to become North Carolina's secretary of state.

But before his public service for the state, Saunders was the chief organizer of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina in the late 1860s.

Still, in 1922, UNC named its history department building for Saunders because he was instrumental in getting the state's colonial records published.

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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 2, 2015 at 2:11 AM

    Shame on us for allowing this.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 2, 2015 at 11:14 AM

    When will this PC nonsense end! Some students have already been trying to get rid of Charles Aycock's name off a local dormitory and to tear down the silent Sam monument. As a history major myself, these students need to understand that they can not go and change history just because they feel uncomfortable about it. It would be unbecoming to us now since we are currently observing the 150th anniversary of the War Between the States and I don't think getting rid of the name of a honorable war hero would be respectful in this observation within the state. I wonder if must those students even know that it is the 150th anniversary of that conflict?

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    1. Brock TownsendFebruary 2, 2015 at 12:44 PM

      I wonder if must those students even know that it is the 150th anniversary of that conflict?

      Their Useful Fool little commie minds could care less.

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 2, 2015 at 6:48 PM

    Time to take a stand or all the beautiful Southern culture will just disappear.
    This is their intentions, THE NEW WORLD ORDER. No individualism.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvlTJrNJ5lA

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