United Daughters of the Confederacy requested custody of Silent Sam [View all]
The United Daughters of the Confederacy requested custody of the Silent Sam Confederate monument just days after it was toppled by protesters at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, According to an August e-mail.
The e-mail was obtained by activist Heather Redding of Hillsborough Progressive Taking Action. It shows Peggy W. Johnson, president of the North Carolina division of the UDC, reached out to UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees Chair Haywood Cochrane on August 22.
As Policy Watch has reported, the United Daughters of the Confederacy is the group responsible not just for Silent Sam’s installation in 1913 but for many of the Confederate monuments that sprung up throughout the country as white supremacist campaigns disfranchised Black Voters and brought about legal segregation.
It is not clear whether UNC, its board of Trustees of the UNC Board of Governors would have the authority to return the statue to the group.
Read more: http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2018/12/27/united-daughters-of-the-confederacy-requested-custody-of-silent-sam/
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