170 E Franklin Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Building Number: 056
Year Built: 1912
Departments: African, African American and Diaspora Studies
Battle Hall is named for Kemp Plummer Battle, the first President of the University after it closed during reconstruction.
The Commission on History, Race, and a Way Forward recommended in a April 2021 resolution to the Chancellor that Battle's name be removed from honor based on the following:
- Battle enslaved Black men, women, and children.
- He committed treason as a signatory of North Carolina's ordinance of secession from the United States.
- He used his positions of influence to perpetuate and sustain systems of racial oppression - first, slavery, and then the regime of Jim Crow.
Building Features:
- Gender Neutral Restroom:
- Floor: 01, Room: 110, Near rear entrance, Accessible Toilet