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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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November 5, 2005 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 Suh Place: McCorkle Place, UNCDocumenting the American South (Commemorative Landscapes): Unsung Founders, Bond and Free
October 18, 2021 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 Suh Place: Chapel HillUNC Commission on History, Race and a Way Forward: Unsung Founders Memorial: Past and Present (Webinar I)

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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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Suh, Do-Ho, 1962-.

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McCorkle Place (with the Davie Poplar) University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here

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Do Ho Suh
Unsung Founders, Bond and FreeCommemorative Landscapes of North Carolina (UNC) Monuments and memorials, documented with their histories
Unsung Founders Memorial: Past and Present (Webinar I)UNC-Chapel Hill University histories, exhibits, and research guides

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