113:
124:
31:
374:
337:
Whether
Spencer would have used words as biting to describe Moeser is debatable. But she almost certainly would have had something to say last month when Moeser - responding to a graduate student's findings that Spencer espoused white supremacist views - retired the Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell
142:
As part of the university's bicentennial activities, the
Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell Award was established. The award, given to a woman who has made outstanding contributions to the university, was awarded annually from 1994 until 2004, when it was retired following the discovery that Spencer
84:
She married James Monroe
Spencer in 1855 and moved to Alabama, where their only child, Julia (later known as June Spencer Love), was born in 1859. Spencer and her daughter returned to Chapel Hill after her husband's death in 1861, where she began her first book and wrote about the university for
103:
After
Reconstruction, she similarly urged the school's reopening and, on March 20, 1875, Spencer climbed to the roof of the South Building and rang its bell to celebrate. She contributed to the university by writing hymns for special occasions, organizing community events and keeping the alumni
143:
espoused racist views, based on letters found in university archives, including opposing the admission of
African-American students. The University Awards for the Advancement of Women were created following the Bell Awards' retirement.
452:
100:
to close the university in 1870 to protect the school from
Reconstruction politics, later revealed to be her own disagreement with the politics of university leaders at the time.
404:
467:
280:
78:
46:
472:
299:
482:
432:
477:
50:
30:
224:
77:
was United States solicitor general under
President Ulysses S. Grant.) In 1826, James Phillips took a post as a mathematics professor at the
462:
457:
246:
447:
152:
97:
136:
398:
437:
442:
139:
at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The university's Spencer Residence Hall is also named for her.
132:
117:
112:
195:
171:
427:
422:
397:
73:, the youngest of three children born to James Phillips and Judith Vermeule Phillips. (Her brother
317:
185:
355:
74:
123:
104:
records. In 1895, she became the first woman to receive an honorary degree from the
University.
350:
17:
379:
70:
42:
41:(March 20, 1825 – March 11, 1908) was a poet, social historian and journalist in
416:
131:
Cornelia
Phillips Spencer died at her home in on March 11, 1908. She was interred in
66:
209:
190:
166:
387:
331:
Swofford, Stan (January 22, 2005). "UNC-CH confronts its past in Bell dispute".
243:
Old days in Chapel Hill, being the life and letters of Cornelia Phillips Spencer
369:
388:
Oral History Interview with Spencer's granddaughter, Cornelia Spencer Love
215:
Pen and ink sketches of the University of North Carolina, as it has been
62:
254:
The woman who rang the bell; the story of Cornelia Phillips Spencer
122:
111:
29:
391:
318:"Inventory of the Cornelia Phillips Spencer Papers, 1833–1975"
351:"In Desire to Grow, Colleges in South Battle With Roots"
45:, United States, who was instrumental in reopening the
61:
Cornelia Ann Phillips was born on March 20, 1825, in
85:local newspapers. She published regular columns in
453:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill people
206:The Last Ninety Days of the War in North Carolina
116:Cornelia Phillips Spencer's gravestone at the
8:
405:Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
79:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
27:American poet, social historian, journalist
262:(University of North Carolina Press, 1953)
256:(University of North Carolina Press, 1949)
468:19th-century American women journalists
271:
34:Photograph of Cornelia Phillips Spencer
49:after a five-year shutdown during the
231:First steps in North Carolina history
225:Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies
7:
392:Oral Histories of the American South
208:(Watchman Publishing Company, 1866)
399:"Spencer, Cornelia Phillips"
281:"Students Protest Award as Racist"
247:University of North Carolina Press
135:. Her collected papers are in the
25:
473:19th-century American journalists
483:Historians from New York (state)
433:19th-century American historians
372:
298:Grinder, Dan (October 4, 2004).
87:The North Carolina Presbyterian
478:Journalists from New York City
279:Chang, Tina (March 21, 2002).
137:Southern Historical Collection
1:
233:(A. Williams & Co., 1889)
127:Spencer Residence Hall at UNC
18:Cornelia Ann Phillips Spencer
241:Hope Summerell Chamberlain,
196:Resources in other libraries
180:By Cornelia Phillips Spencer
172:Resources in other libraries
47:University of North Carolina
463:19th-century American poets
499:
300:"UNC takes glance at past"
98:North Carolina legislature
458:American women historians
191:Resources in your library
167:Resources in your library
158:Cornelia Phillips Spencer
39:Cornelia Phillips Spencer
133:Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
118:Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
448:Writers from Manhattan
128:
120:
35:
333:The News & Record
126:
115:
33:
438:American women poets
359:, November 30, 2005.
108:Death and afterward
443:People from Harlem
356:The New York Times
304:The Daily Tar Heel
285:The Daily Tar Heel
252:Phillips Russell,
129:
121:
75:Samuel F. Phillips
51:Reconstruction era
36:
221:A walk in October
153:Library resources
16:(Redirected from
490:
409:
401:
382:
380:Biography portal
377:
376:
375:
360:
347:
341:
340:
328:
322:
321:
314:
308:
307:
295:
289:
288:
276:
91:Raleigh Sentinel
21:
498:
497:
493:
492:
491:
489:
488:
487:
413:
412:
396:
378:
373:
371:
368:
363:
348:
344:
330:
329:
325:
316:
315:
311:
297:
296:
292:
278:
277:
273:
269:
260:Selected papers
210:digital edition
202:
201:
200:
177:
176:
161:
160:
156:
149:
147:Published works
110:
59:
28:
23:
22:
15:
12:
11:
5:
496:
494:
486:
485:
480:
475:
470:
465:
460:
455:
450:
445:
440:
435:
430:
425:
415:
414:
411:
410:
394:
384:
383:
367:
366:External links
364:
362:
361:
342:
323:
309:
290:
270:
268:
265:
264:
263:
257:
250:
237:Posthumously:
235:
234:
228:
218:
212:
199:
198:
193:
188:
182:
178:
175:
174:
169:
163:
162:
151:
150:
148:
145:
109:
106:
96:She urged the
58:
55:
43:North Carolina
26:
24:
14:
13:
10:
9:
6:
4:
3:
2:
495:
484:
481:
479:
476:
474:
471:
469:
466:
464:
461:
459:
456:
454:
451:
449:
446:
444:
441:
439:
436:
434:
431:
429:
426:
424:
421:
420:
418:
407:
406:
400:
395:
393:
389:
386:
385:
381:
370:
365:
358:
357:
352:
349:Alan Finder,
346:
343:
339:
334:
327:
324:
319:
313:
310:
305:
301:
294:
291:
286:
282:
275:
272:
266:
261:
258:
255:
251:
248:
244:
240:
239:
238:
232:
229:
226:
222:
219:
216:
213:
211:
207:
204:
203:
197:
194:
192:
189:
187:
184:
183:
181:
173:
170:
168:
165:
164:
159:
154:
146:
144:
140:
138:
134:
125:
119:
114:
107:
105:
101:
99:
94:
92:
88:
82:
80:
76:
72:
68:
67:New York City
64:
56:
54:
52:
48:
44:
40:
32:
19:
403:
354:
345:
336:
332:
326:
312:
303:
293:
284:
274:
259:
253:
242:
236:
230:
220:
214:
205:
186:Online books
179:
157:
141:
130:
102:
95:
90:
86:
83:
60:
38:
37:
428:1908 deaths
423:1825 births
417:Categories
267:References
217:(c. 1869)
57:Biography
89:and the
71:New York
408:. 1900.
249:, 1926)
227:, 1882)
338:Award.
155:about
63:Harlem
390:from
419::
402:.
353:,
335:.
302:.
283:.
93:.
81:.
69:,
65:,
53:.
320:.
306:.
287:.
245:(
223:(
20:)
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Additional terms may apply.
