The History of the Negro in Education Left Panel Detail

Title

The History of the Negro in Education Left Panel Detail

Creator

Abe Washington

Description

This section of the mural portrays African Americans’ struggle to educate themselves amidst slavery, white supremacy, and the Civil War. On the far left side, two men are lynched by hooded Klansmen, while a church burns in the background. Nonetheless, chained enslaved people practice reading in secret, aided secretly by a priest. Towards the middle, Union soldiers carry torches, symbolizing the end of slavery. On the right, a woman teaches two children from a book, while another woman, faced away from the viewer, washes clothes in front of a crumbling plantation house.

Subject

1900-1999

Black art

Civil War, 1861-1865

Educators

Enslaved people

Racial violence

Reconstruction

Ku Klux Klan

Plantation

Additional Techniques

Mural painting

Format

JPEG

HCAC Identifier

HCAC.TSU.0291.001

Rights

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Main Image

The History of the Negro in Education