12 Facts About Silent Sam

1. 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 from 1913 until it was pulled down by protestors on August 20, 2018.

2. The name Silent Sam is first recorded in 1954, in the student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel.

3. In 1967, poet John Beecher "debated" Silent Sam, reading to the statue from his book of poetry To Live and Die in Dixie.

4. In January 2011, Adam Domby, wrote a letter to The Daily Tar Heel entitled "Why Silent Sam was built: A historian's perspective".

5. Silent Sam's described her action as "provid[ing] context": "This statue, Silent Sam, was built on white supremacy.

6. Silent Sam's was charged with a UNC Honor Code violation.

7. In July, 2018, Silent Sam, covered by a red X and the words "North Carolina needs a monumental change", was depicted in Raleigh on two identical billboards, on Blount Street near Hoke Street and on North Raleigh Boulevard near the intersection with Yonkers Road.

8. Silent Sam was under 24-hour video surveillance via a monitor in the campus Police Department.

9. Student documentary about the statue, "Silence Silent Sam", was shown on November 30, 2018, at Duke University, under the sponsorship of Duke's Center for Documentary Studies.

10. From August 2018, Silent Sam was being kept in an undisclosed location because of safety concerns.

11. Mayor of Chapel Hill Pam Hemminger had written the university on August 17, 2017, requesting that Silent Sam be moved.

12. Now that Silent Sam is down, we are united in agreeing that it should not return to its former location.