UNC-Chapel Hill, considered the nation's oldest public university, named the building for William L. Saunders in 1922. Saunders was a UNC alum and a colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
But as the university readily admits on its website, Saunders "became known as the chief organizer of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina and Chapel Hill," and led a "terror campaign" intended to upend Reconstruction in the 1860's, according to the Daily Tar Heel.
