IU: Room With Mural of KKK Rally Will No Longer Be a Classroom
A controversial mural at Indiana University that depicts a Ku KIux Klan rally, complete with hooded Klansmen and a burning cross, will not be removed, the university said Friday.
But the classroom will.
The famous Thomas Hart Benton artwork created in the 1930s has seared the emotions of students and others, university officials acknowledge — especially now in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, Va., and efforts nationwide to remove monuments to Confederate leaders.
An online petition circulated around the IU campus in Bloomington last month urged officials to remove that panel, part of a 22-panel mural that is spread among several buildings on campus.
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