UNC System to Pay $2.5 Million in Silent Sam Monument Lawsuit

UNC System to Pay $2.5 Million in Silent Sam Monument Lawsuit
The Confederate monument known as Silent Sam in University of North Carolina Chapel Hill campus. adioCX/Shutterstock
Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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University of North Carolina (UNC) System will pay $2.5 million to a Confederate heritage group to care for and preserve a Confederate monument away from its campus.

The UNC announced the day before Thanksgiving that it will turn over the ownership of Silent Sam, a century-old Confederate monument that stood on UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus before it was toppled by protesters last year, to the North Carolina Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV).