Kenan died in 1965 . In 1986 , the Kenan Center was founded at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . It houses the Kenan Institute for the Study of Private Enterprise as well as the '' William R. Kenan Jr . Charitable Trust '' and '' William R. Kenan Jr . Fund '' . Moreover , he provided the funds for Kenan Memorial Stadium and it was named , at his request , in honor of his parents . Because of the sensitivity of racial issues at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 2010 's ( see Silent Sam ) , because of his father William Rand Kenan Sr. 's leadership role in the Wilmington insurrection of 1898 , the stadium has been rededicated to William Kenan Jr. ( " William Sr. was the commander of a white supremacist paramilitary force , which massacred scores of black residents in Wilmington , on a single day in 1898 . " ) The Kenan – Flagler Business School at UNC is named for him and his sister , Mary Kenan Flagler . The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University was founded in 1995 . Eighty-five endowed professorships at colleges and universities in the United States are named for him
Wilmington insurrection of 1898
Wilmington insurrection of 1898
William R. Kenan Jr.