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UNC to Honor Henry Owl, First American Indian Student at Carolina and Former History Graduate Student

The Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Naming University Facilities and Units has decided to rename the Student Affairs building on campus in honor of Henry Owl. Owl was a Cherokee historian and the first American Indian student to enroll at the university. He joined the history department in 1928 as a graduate student where he wrote his thesis on  “The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Before and After the Removal.”

Read his full biography in The Well

 

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554A Pauli Murray Hall*
102 Emerson Dr., CB #3195
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195

*Though the History Department uses the name Pauli Murray Hall for our building, on official maps you will find it as Hamilton Hall. Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton’s intellectually dishonest historical and archival work promoted white supremacy. In contrast, Pauli Murray marshaled unassailable evidence and analysis in the service of racial and gender equality. In July 2020, all of the departments housed in the building agreed to adopt the name Pauli Murray Hall in place of Hamilton Hall. An official request with the Chancellor is pending. For more information, please see here.
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