The Chronicle of Higher Education
By Sarah Brown and Vimal Patel
August 21, 2018
On Tuesday morning, Michelle Brown walked across the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She slowed her pace near a lush green plaza. There, the recent graduate saw in daylight what she had been working toward for years: a vista with no Silent Sam looming over her.
In a dramatic gathering the night before, protesters had yanked the nine-foot-tall Confederate monument to the ground during a demonstration that drew hundreds of participants. The protest was held to energize the movement against the statue’s presence and support an activist facing charges for splashing it with red ink and blood in May.
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