The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill will change the names of three buildings to remove the references to white supremacists and racists, and it will install a plaque in a fourth building to specify it does not honor racists members of the family, the Raleigh News & Observer reported.
Buildings named in honor of Charles B. Aycock, Julian S. Carr and Josephus Daniels will be renamed and references to the men will be removed, and the dorm named for Thomas Ruffin Sr. will be rededicated in honor of his son, Thomas Ruffin Jr.
“Together, they fought to disenfranchise Black men and to establish the regime of Jim Crow, which for more than half a century denied Black North Carolinians equal justice and the fundamental rights of citizenship,” UNC’s Commission on History, Race & A Way Forward, said in its resolution.
“Aycock, Carr, Daniels and the elder Ruffin were not simply men of their times,” the commission’s resolution says. “Instead, they wielded power, wealth, and influence to define the historical moments in which they lived.”