High school under stress - Library of Congress
WEBPhotographs show Jack Beardshear, principal of George Washington High School, Denver, Colorado, a school which experienced unrest and riots after integration.
The story behind the mural controversy at San Francisco’s Washington …
WEBJul 30, 2021 — A California court this week ruled that Works Progress Administration frescoes depicting the life of George Washington cannot be removed from a local high …
Contentious George Washington mural at San Francisco school …
WEBJul 29, 2021 — San Francisco Unified School District broke the law when it voted to cover up a contentious mural at George Washington High School without first examining the environmental impacts, a...
The Radical History Of The Murals At George Washington High School
WEBAug 3, 2021 — And more than 80 years later, officials decided to let the public in to George Washington High School to see the murals for themselves. The hallway is packed. Some are protesting the murals’ destruction.
In a Reversal, the San Francisco School Board Has Opted Not to …
WEBJun 24, 2022 — The San Francisco school board has reversed a controversial decision to remove a historic fresco series of the life of George Washington from the local George Washington High School.
When murals depict traumatic history, schools must decide what ... - NPR
WEBOct 14, 2022 — A mural in George Washington High School in San Francisco has been the subject of a bitter dispute. It includes the life-size image of a dead Native American, as well as a scene of George...
These High School Murals Depict an Ugly History. Should They Go?
WEBApr 11, 2019 — SAN FRANCISCO — In one of the murals, George Washington points westward over the dead body of a Native American. Another depicts Washington’s slaves, hunched over, working in the fields of...
In defence of the George Washington murals | Apollo Magazine
WEBAug 22, 2019 — At the height of the Great Depression, a Russian artist was paid by the US government to paint a series of murals in a San Francisco high school. The 1,600-square-foot, 13-panel work that Victor Arnautoff created was called The Life of Washington, after the school’s namesake. It could have embraced a hagiographical view of America’s ...
When murals depict traumatic history, schools must decide what …
WEBOct 14, 2022 — A mural in George Washington High School in San Francisco has been the subject of a bitter dispute. It includes the life-size image of a dead Native American, as well as a scene of George Washington and the people he enslaved.
San Francisco High School’s Controversial George Washington
WEBAug 14, 2019 — The San Francisco Board of Education voted Tuesday night to cover up a suite of controversial Depression-era murals at George Washington High School, reversing an earlier decision to spend $600,000 painting over them.