Carolina Hall signs are now up outside the former Saunders Hall.
Happening now: the name Saunders is being scrubbed from the side entrances of #HurstonHall pic.twitter.com/1aAvrzwIGQ
— ZoraNealeHurstonHall (@hurstonhall) June 1, 2015
The UNC Board of Trustees voted last week in a vote of 10 to 3 to rename the hall.
It was originally named after UNC alumnus and former North Carolina Secretary of State William Saunders.
Saunders was also a confederate soldier and founder of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina.
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