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Do-Ho Suh

Do-Ho Suh made the Unsung Founders Memorial in McCorkle Place at the University of North Carolina, the Class of 2002's gift, dedicated on November 5, 2005. After visiting the campus and talking with students, he designed bronze figures holding up a stone table, drawing on the plain stones that mark graves of unknown African Americans in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery.

Source: Carolina Story: Virtual Museum of University History: Unsung Founders, Bond and Free

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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.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Suh, Do-Ho, 1962-.

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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
  2. The history and race commission holds a public webinar on the Unsung Founders Memorial The Commission on History, Race and a Way Forward opened a two-part webinar series, Unsung Founders Memorial: Past and Present, with members of the Class of 2002 committee and statements from artist Do Ho Suh. People: Do-Ho SuhUNC Commission on History, Race and a Way Forward: Unsung Founders Memorial: Past and Present (Webinar I)

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