Thursday, November 14 | 7:00 PM
In 1970, a 22-year-old Chapel Hill man was stabbed during a racial brawl at a campus dance between a white biker gang and black youth. Despite a hospital being down the hill, James Cates Jr. was left to bleed to death. Despite police being at the scene, the bikers were allowed to leave. Despite dozens of potential witnesses, the verdict was not-guilty. And despite having lived in Chapel Hill all his life, despite his grandmother working for UNC for years, despite the national headline-grabbing details of his murder, the white community quickly forgot James Cates. The relative indifference of law enforcement, the courts, UNC, and the white public, amounted to a lynching after the fact.
Join us for a remembrance of Cates and conversation about the legacy of his murder with guests Mike Ogle and Minister Robert Campbell on Thursday, November 14th at 7pm at Hyde Hall.
Free and Open to the Public.