The San Francisco School Board has voted to spend some $600,000 to paint over a Depression-era mural depicting the accomplishments of America’s most celebrated founder, the first President of the United States, George Washington. Activists have targeted the mural because it contains depictions of Native Americans and slaves, but now some are worried about the impact the erasure of the historic mural, which was produced under Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, might have on other New Deal-era work.
In its report on the school board’s decision to paint over a piece of American history, the Associated Press notes that the “Life of Washington” mural was “once seen as educational and innovative” but is now being condemned by some as “racist and degrading for its depiction of black and Native American people.”
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