John A. (John Albert) Wilson

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Confederate Monument Protests collected tweets, 2017-2019

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. University Archives · 2017

A set of 77,570 tweet identifiers, about one gigabyte, gathered by the University Archives at Chapel Hill to document protests over the Confederate monument on campus between 2017 and 2019, University Archives 40486. Topics include soldiers' monuments and war memorials in North Carolina, Civil War monuments, protest movements in the state, and the statue by John A. Wilson (1878-1954) known as Silent Sam.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Wilson, John A. (John Albert), 1878-1954. Silent Sam.

Julian Shakespeare Carr papers, 1892-1923

Carr, Julian Shakespeare · 1892

Papers of Julian Shakespeare Carr, 1892 to 1923, a Durham industrialist in tobacco, textiles and banking, a Methodist active in Sunday schools, and a figure in the finances of the university at Chapel Hill. They also cover Confederate veterans, race relations, white supremacy campaigns, and the Chapel Hill war memorial by John A. Wilson known as Silent Sam. Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 141.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Wilson, John A. (John Albert), 1878-1954. Silent Sam.

Silent Sam's reckoning

A periodical on the Confederate monument known as Silent Sam and on what followed its fall at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The cover phrasing speaks of making history visible in absence and of reckoning with myth and reality. Topics include protest movements and white supremacy movements in Chapel Hill and registers of students and alumni who were slaveholders.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Wilson, John A. (John Albert), 1878-1954. Silent Sam -- Periodicals.