. "I watched it groan and shiver and come asunder. I mean, it feels biblical. It's thundering and starting to rain. It\u2019s almost like heaven is trying to wash away the soiled contaminated remains."@en . "1892047"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "McCorkle Place, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Silent Sam"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "27"^^ . . "183276"^^ . . . . . "Silent Sam, center, draped in a black cloth"@en . . . "Ours is the task to build a State worthy of all patriotism and heroic deeds, a State that demands justice for herself and all her people, a State sounding with the music of victorious industry, a State whose awakened conscience shall lead the State to evolve from the forces of progress a new social order, with finer development for all conditions and classes of our people."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "The Confederate Monument, University of North Carolina, commonly known as Silent Sam, is a bronze statue of a Confederate soldier by Canadian sculptor John A. Wilson, which once stood on McCorkle Place of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) from 1913 until it was pulled down by protestors on August 20, 2018. Its former location has been described as \"the front door\" of the university and \"a position of honor\". Establishing a Confederate monument at a Southern university became a goal of the North Carolina chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) in 1907. UNC approved the group's request in 1908 and, with funding from UNC alumni, the UDC and the university, Wilson designed the statue, using a young Boston man as his model. At the unveiling on June 2, 1913, local industrialist and UNC Trustee Julian Carr gave a speech espousing white supremacy, while Governor Locke Craig, UNC President Francis Venable and members of the UDC praised the sacrifices made by students who volunteered to fight for the Confederacy. The program for the unveiling simply referred to the statue as \"the Confederate Monument\", with the name \"Soldiers Monument\" also being used around the same time. The name Silent Sam is first recorded in 1954, in the student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel. Beginning in the 1960s, the statue faced opposition on the grounds of its racist message, and it was vandalized several times during the civil rights movement. Protests and calls to remove the monument reached a higher profile in the 2010s, and in 2018, UNC Chancellor Carol L. Folt described the monument as detrimental to the university, and said that she would have the statue removed if not prohibited by state law. Increased protests and vandalism resulted in the university spending $390,000 on security and cleaning for the statue in the 2017\u201318 academic year. The statue was toppled by protesters, and later that night removed to a secure location by university authorities. A statement from Chancellor Folt said the statue's original location was \"a cause for division and a threat to public safety,\" and that she was seeking input on a plan for a \"safe, legal and alternative\" new location. The UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees made a recommendation in December 2018 that the statue be installed in a new \"University History and Education Center\" to be built on campus, at an estimated cost of $5.3 million, but this was rejected by the university system's Board of Governors. The pedestal base and inscription plaques were removed in January 2019, with a statement from Chancellor Folt citing public safety. In November 2019, in response to a lawsuit from the Sons of Confederate Veterans, UNC donated the statue to the group, with a $2.5 million trust for its \"care and preservation\", on the condition that the statue would not be displayed in the same county as any UNC school. However, in February 2020 the settlement was overturned by the judge who originally approved it, who ruled that the SCV lacked standing to bring the lawsuit."@en . . . ""@en . . . . . . . . . . "Bronze sculpture and plaques"@en . . . . . . . . . . "Silent Sam"@sv . . . "-79.05237579345703"^^ . . . . . . . "Silent Sam, eller Confederate Monument, \u00E4r en bronsstaty, som st\u00E5tt p\u00E5 McCorkle Place p\u00E5 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill i Chapel Hill i North Carolina i USA mellan 1913 och 2018. Statyn f\u00F6rest\u00E4ller en konfedererad vaktpost och skapades av den kanadensiske skulpt\u00F6ren . Han skapade vad som kallas en \"silent statue\" genom att inte avbilda n\u00E5gon patronv\u00E4ska p\u00E5 soldatens b\u00E4lte. S\u00E5dana utseenden var vanliga f\u00F6r s\u00E5dana vaktpoststatyer som vid denna tid skapades i nordstaterna och ofta massproducerades."@sv . . . . . . "The statue in 2007, prior to its removal"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "POINT(-79.052375793457 35.913951873779)"^^ . . . "300"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "Stone plinth"@en . . . . "Silent Sam, eller Confederate Monument, \u00E4r en bronsstaty, som st\u00E5tt p\u00E5 McCorkle Place p\u00E5 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill i Chapel Hill i North Carolina i USA mellan 1913 och 2018. Statyn f\u00F6rest\u00E4ller en konfedererad vaktpost och skapades av den kanadensiske skulpt\u00F6ren . Han skapade vad som kallas en \"silent statue\" genom att inte avbilda n\u00E5gon patronv\u00E4ska p\u00E5 soldatens b\u00E4lte. S\u00E5dana utseenden var vanliga f\u00F6r s\u00E5dana vaktpoststatyer som vid denna tid skapades i nordstaterna och ofta massproducerades. Initiativtagare till ett konfedererat minnesm\u00E4rke p\u00E5 University of North Carolina var delstatens avdelning av 1907. Statyns vara eller icke vara b\u00F6rjade diskuteras p\u00E5 1960-talet och den vandaliserades d\u00E5 flera g\u00E5nger under medborgarr\u00E4ttsr\u00F6relsen i USA. Anmaningar till att ta bort statyn blev starkare p\u00E5 2010-talet, och 2018 betecknade universitetets rektor Carol Folt minnesm\u00E4rkets fortsatta varande p\u00E5 universitetet som skadligt f\u00F6r universitetet. Styrelsen f\u00F6r University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill rekommenderade i december 2018 att ett \"University History and Education Center\" skulle inr\u00E4ttas p\u00E5 universitetsomr\u00E5det, men f\u00F6rslaget f\u00F6rkastades av styrelsen f\u00F6r hela University of North Carolina. Sockeln och dess plaketter togs bort i januari 2019 under h\u00E4nvisning till allm\u00E4n s\u00E4kerhet. I augusti 2018 v\u00E4ltes statyn ned av demonstrerande studenter. Som ett svar till donerade University of North Carolina i november 2019 statyn till denna organisation tillsammans med ett belopp f\u00F6r underh\u00E5ll, med villkoret att statyn inte fick resas i ett countyn som inrymmer n\u00E5got av universitetets enskilda l\u00E4roanstalter."@sv . . . . "1913-06-02"^^ . . "1120501454"^^ . . "USA North Carolina"@en . "--06-02"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "250"^^ . . . "Toppled by protesters Aug 2018; transferred to Sons of Confederate Veterans Nov 2019"@en . . . . "The Confederate Monument"@en . . . "vertical"@en . . "Silent Sam"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "--08-20"^^ . "Police cordoned off the pedestal"@en . . . . . . . . . . "right"@en . . "The Confederate Monument, University of North Carolina, commonly known as Silent Sam, is a bronze statue of a Confederate soldier by Canadian sculptor John A. Wilson, which once stood on McCorkle Place of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) from 1913 until it was pulled down by protestors on August 20, 2018. Its former location has been described as \"the front door\" of the university and \"a position of honor\"."@en . . . . . . . "Q7514652"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Dwayne Dixon, a UNC-CH professor"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "35.9139518737793"^^ . . . . . "Crowds gathered around the pedestal after Silent Sam was toppled"@en . . . . . . "35.91395 -79.052375" . . . "2018-08-20"^^ . . . . . "right"@en . . . . "Former location"@en . . . . . . . . "Silent Sam"@en . . . . . . .