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Charles Brantley Aycock
Charles Duncan McIver
Dr. Charles Duncan McIver spent his life advocating for women’s higher education. He founded North Carolina’s first college created specifiically for women in Greensboro, and was dedicated a female dormitory for his efforts at UNC-Carolina in 1939.
Adolphus Williamson Mangum
Aldolphus Williamson Mangum (1834-1890) was born in Orange Co NC to a large plantation owner. He attended Randolph-Macon College in Virginia and became a circuit rider preacher. He joined the Confederate Army in 1861. In 1875 he was elected as the chair of Mental and Moral Philosophy at UNC. He was remembered as an intense believer in the Lost Cause and Mangum Dormitory was named after him, his uncle, and his cousin in 1922.
Charles Phillips
Cornelia Spencer
Cornelia Phillips Spencer, born in Harlem, spent most of her life in Chapel Hill. Best known as the woman who rang the bell after UNC reopened after Reconstruction, Spencer’s legacy has raised questions as scholars and activists alike have reexamined her white supremacist views.
David Lowry Swain
Edwin A. Alderman
Edwin A. Alderman (1861-1931) was a UNC alumn who pursued a career in teaching. He was a prominant figure in the Southern education movement. He was a conductor of the State Teacher’s Institutes before founding two universities and then as custodian of the UNC library. He then became the first professor of History and Philosophy of education. He became president of UNC in 1896 and campaigned the Board of Trustees to allow the first women to enroll at UNC.