In July 2020, the UNC Departments of History, Political Science, and Sociology unofficially renamed Hamilton Hall in honor of Pauli Murray 
. Murray was denied entry to UNC twice--first in 1938 because of North Carolina segregation laws, and again in 1951, despite a ruling saying that Black students could attend professional and graduate schools in the UNC system (see her correspondence with the Dean of the Law School, above). Pauli Murray would go on to earn law degrees from UC-Berkeley and Yale, working as a lawyer and activist with the NAACP before becoming the first black woman ordained by the Episcopal Church.
See exhibit page .