The two murals at Vermont Law and Graduate School show the brutality of enslavement through images of a slave market, an enslaver brandishing a whip and a dog attacking someone.
A Black administrator is trying to have slavery-related murals at Vermont Law and Graduate School removed, but the white artist who painted them isn’t letting them go down without a legal battle.
Shirley Jefferson, 69, used to advise students to concentrate on their studies when they expressed concerns about the murals’ depictions of Black people, which some found to be racist caricatures. But her feelings changed after one particular event in May 2020, according to today!
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