UNC Students Protest Building Named for KKK Leader

For years, students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been asking school leaders to change the name of Saunders Hall, named after a former trustee who was a leader of the Ku Klux Klan.

 

Last month, some stood outside the building with nooses around their necks and signs such as “THIS is what SAUNDERS would do to ME.”

On Wednesday, the public university’s board of trustees responded, with an invitation: It asked to hear from students, faculty, alumni and others. A student leader wrote this: