Davis Library – History on the Hill

Be Inspired With Carolina’s Nobel Laureates

Join Chancellor Carol Folt and Carolina’s two Nobel Laureates for a special event in Davis Library on April 13. Continue reading

Nobel_feature Join Chancellor Carol Folt and Carolina’s two Nobel Laureates for a special event in Davis Library on April 13. Continue reading

1960 Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed an overflow crowd in Hill Hall concerning "The Struggle for Racial Justice." During the speech, he told the primarily white audience that "[i]t is either non-violence or non-existence."

2004 Julius Chambers addressed the Class of 2004 in Kenan Memorial Stadium. Chambers graduated first in his class from the UNC School of Law in 1962, having also been editor-in-chief for the North Carolina Law Review (the first African American to hold this title in any historically white law school in the South).