Blackface lynching pictures from UNC Chapel Hill 1979
yearbook emerge - the same year NC Gov Roy Cooper graduated - just days after HE called on Virginia Governor
to resign over racist photo By Leah Simpson For Dailymail.com 6 February 2019

• Images emerged Wednesday showing what's believed to be members of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill's Chi Phi fraternity in racist costumes
• A picture shows two Chi Phi people wearing white robes similar to those worn by the Ku Klux Klan, depicting a lynching with a man donning blackface 
• Another photograph on the 1979 yearbook pages show two people blacked up
• Chapel Hill denounced the photographs that were published 40 years ago 
• Told DailyMail.com in a statement they 'wholly condemn' the 'abhorrent' photos
• Cooper was in the different Chi Psi fraternity did not feature on their pages  
• He did have his photo in the same yearbook however
• It came days after he called for Virginia Governor Northam to resign after racist images emerged in his yearbook
  

Horrifying blackface and lynching images from North Carolina Democrat Roy Cooper’s yearbook have emerged just days after he called on Virginia Governor Ralph Northam to resign over racist images in his yearbook.

The pictures surfaced Wednesday showing what's believed to be two members of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill's Chi Phi fraternity donning white robes, similar to those worn by the Ku Klux Klan, and depicting a lynching with a man donning blackface.

Aside from the shot where they use a lighting fixture with a noose, the two-page spread for the frat shows a woman kissing a man's cheek and they too have their faces blacked up in the black-and-white pictures.

There is no suggestion that Cooper is in any of those photos but they feature in his 1979 yearbook.

Chapel Hill condemned the photos Wednesday with Vice Chancellor for Communications, Joel Curran, telling DailyMail.com in a statement: 'The photos found in the 1979 student yearbook are abhorrent.'

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