The Task Force on UNC-Chapel Hill’s History presented their plans further discussion about race on campus to members of the Board of Trustees on Wednesday.

“We want to make sure this exercise teaches our community and any other interested people about our complete past, including things people might consider good and bad,” said Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Winston Crisp

Crisp is a member of the task force, which was created after the renaming of Saunders hall to examine race and history at the university.

To start, a plaque will be placed on Carolina Hall, formerly Saunders Hall, on November 23.

The plaque will read, “We honor and remember all of those who have suffered injustices at the hands of those who denied them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

The committee is also working to place an exhibit inside the building.

“It’s a rough concept at the moment, but the general idea is it will have three points of focus,” said task force member and UNC history professor James Leloudis. “The first is reconstruction and Williams Saunders’ role in that tumultuous time. The second on the 1920s and the social, political and racial context in which the trustees in 1922 decided to name the building for William Saunders. And then finally a discussion of the contemporary era.”

He said the timeline for the creation of the exhibit will be around 7 months and estimated the budget will be 10 to 15 thousand dollars.

There is no specific design for the exhibit and Leloudis said the task force was unsure where exactly it would be placed within the building.

In the spring the board requested an audit of all buildings, monuments, memorials and landscapes, in order to get a better understanding of the historical context of the campus.

“I don’t have at the moment a real ability to tell you how long it’s going to be before we finish that,” Crisp said. “But that is underway.”

The task force is also working on historical markers to put in McCorkle place and is still in the early stages of developing ideas for the markers.

Crisp said the task force is looking for input from the community and is creating a website to make more information available to the public.

He encouraged the public to reach out to the task force via email at historytaskforce@unc.edu

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