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Do-Ho Suh

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The challenge of memorializing slavery in North Carolina : the Unsung Founders Memorial and the North Carolina Freedom Monument Project

Ater, Renée · 2012

Renée Ater writes on two efforts to memorialize slavery in North Carolina: the Unsung Founders Memorial on the campus at Chapel Hill, made by the artist Do-Ho Suh, and the North Carolina Freedom Monument Project. Dated 2012, concerning monuments to enslaved people in Chapel Hill and on monuments to African Americans across the state.

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  1. The Unsung Founders Memorial is dedicated in McCorkle Place The Class of 2002's gift, a black granite table held up by 300 bronze figures by artist Do-Ho Suh, honors the people of color, bond and free, who helped build the university. People: Do-Ho SuhDocumenting the American South (Commemorative Landscapes): Unsung Founders, Bond and Free

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