Remembering
Reconstruction
at Carolina
YOU ARE INVITED….
Rembering Reconstruction at Carolina:
A Community Conversation
October 1 and 2, 2004
Gerrard Hall, UNC-CH campus
Free and open to the public. Click
here to preregister by email or call Barb Call at 962-5665
to preregister by phone. Lunch provided on October 2 for the
first 100 registrants.
In the spring of 2004, a group of UNC-CH students, faculty, staff,
and community members called for a moratorium on the Cornelia Phillips
Spencer Bell Award, presented every year to recognize distinguished
service to the University by a woman. The award honors Cornelia
Phillips Spencer, famous as “the woman who rang the bell,” and
widely known for her efforts to reopen the University after 1871.
Critics charge that Mrs. Spencer opposed racial equality and actually
tried to close the University to resist efforts to create a more
democratic society in the aftermath of slavery.
WHAT ARE THE FACTS?
Chancellor Moeser has asked the Center for the Study of the American
South to conduct a community conversation about Mrs. Spencer and
her life and times, including Carolina’s troubled history
in the years surrounding the Civil War and its aftermath.
COME AND FIND OUT….
• What was Carolina’s role in the world of the Old
South?
• What happened to Carolina in the Civil War?
• Did some North Carolinians try to create a freer society in the aftermath
of slavery? Who opposed them? How did UNC fit into their efforts?
• Who was Cornelia
Phillips Spencer and what did she do for the University and the state?
COME AND DISCUSS….
• Do Carolina’s past connections to slavery and inequality
still matter today?
• How should Carolina remember its Civil War-era past?
• How should Carolina honor the work of women and minorities?
• Is it fair to apply modern standards to people in the past?
“Remembering Reconstruction at Carolina” will explore these questions
honestly, fairly, and without preconceived answers. The entire University and
Chapel Hill-Carrboro community are invited to participate.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
• Dr. Thomas C. Holt
Thompson Professor of History, University of Chicago, national expert on African-American
history and Reconstruction
• Dr. Edward T. Linenthal
University of Wisconsin, historian and consultant on historical memory at the
U.S. Holocaust Museum, the National Park Service, the Oklahoma City bombing
memorial, and the Flight 93 memorial
• UNC and Duke professors: Fitz Brundage, Madeline Levine, John Sanders,
Bill Ferris, Laura Edwards, James Leloudis, Jerma Jackson, Harry Watson, Adrienne
Davis, Joseph Jordan
• Students and community leaders: Erin Davis, Michelle Laws, Dave Brannigan,
Deb McCown, Annette Wright, Yonni Chapman, Derwin Dubose, Rebecca Williford
Click
here for program details.
Click
here to read more about Cornelia
Phillips Spencer.
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