Hope no. 1 and Hope no. 2 Right Panel Detail
- Title
- Hope no. 1 and Hope no. 2 Right Panel Detail
- Creator
- Maurice Ellison
- Description
- This mural, Ellison’s Hope no. 1, shows portraits of political figures who were assassinated in the 1960s. At the top, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy are pictured in black suits in front of the American flag and labeled as the “honored dead.” Below them, #10 on the Wheatley High School basketball team hits a shot over #9 from Thomas Jefferson High School. In 1968, the Wheatley (primarily Black) team beat Jefferson (primarily white) to cap off an unbeaten season in the first year of the integrated state basketball championship tournament.
- Inscription
- From These Honored Dead We Take Increased Devotion
- Hope
- Houston Independent School District Wheatley State Champ (68-69) We Are The Best Win Lose 36-0
- Wheatley 10
- Three Of Our Great Leaders Have Perished From This Country. They Have Given Us Hope. Now We Must Overcome
- Subject
- Black art
- Death
- Protest
- Presidents--Assassination--United States--History
- Basketball in art
- Desegregation
- School integration
- Bald eagle in art
- Medium
- Tempera
- Additional Techniques
- Mural painting
- Format
- JPEG
- HCAC Identifier
- HCAC.TSU.0301.002
- Rights
- All rights held by the University Museum at Texas Southern. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact University Museum, Texas Southern University umuseum@gmail.com Attn: Museum Director. Materials not created by Texas Southern University may still be under copyright. Additional materials may be presented for educational and research purposes in accordance with fair use under United States copyright law.
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Hope no. 1 and Hope no. 2
Part of Hope no. 1 and Hope no. 2