In late June the San Francisco Board of Education voted unanimously to destroy or cover up a series of murals painted in 1936 by artist George Arnautoff on the walls of the then-new George Washington High School. The seven-member board seems to believe that the mural, called “The Life of George Washington,” is offensive because it includes images of Washington’s slaves picking cotton in the fields of Mount Vernon and a group of colonizers walking past the corpse of a Native American.
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