Black and Blue Tour of UNC Campus Oct. 28
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Campus tour with Prof. Tim McMillan
Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009
2-4 p.m.
Meet at the Unsung Founders Memorial on McCorkle Place
Free and open to the public
Information and rain date: Liza Terll, Friends of the Library, (919) 962-4207
Tim McMillan, Ph.D., UNC professor in African and Afro-American studies, will lead a walking tour of historical landmarks on campus. McMillan will discuss UNC’s racial history and the people and events that these landmarks commemorate. Begin at the Unsung Founders Memorial on UNC’s McCorkle Place, just off East Franklin Street across from the post office.
The Southern Historical Collection in the Wilson Special Collections Library is sponsoring the tour in conjunction with the exhibit We Shall Not Be Moved: African Americans in the South, 18th Century to the Present, on view in Wilson Library through Feb. 5, 2010.
Additional events will take place in November and December.
Related Links
- We Shall Not Be Moved: African Americans in the South, 18th Century to the Present (exhibit on view in Wilson Special Collections Library through Feb. 5)
- Events related to exhibit
October 26th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
[...] Oct. 28, 2-4 p.m.—Black and Blue Tour of the UNC campus. Tim McMillan, professor in African and Afro-American studies at UNC, will lead a walking tour of historical landmarks on the campus. McMillan will discuss UNC’s racial history and the people and events that these landmarks commemorate. Meet at the Unsung Founders Memorial on UNC’s McCorkle Place. Read more information. [...]
October 27th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
I just read about the black syphilis experiment it was very sad.