American flag with pieces of corn, Dr. King, church, graveyard, preacher, emphasis on feeding and clothing Black children, globe and scale - small damage
Black power, fighting back to protect community from police brutality, Medusa beauty shop, intentional placement of mural with fire hose, goddess, red eye beaming, brick looks like speech bubbles - chips of painting missing
Jones’ surrealist Hannah Hall mural depicts bald, one-eyed men conducting a television broadcast. The artist incorporated Hannah Hall’s architecture into the design, as the beige panel, where the camera lens would be, was a glass transom window when the mural was painted. Dr. Biggers urged students to carefully consider where to paint their murals.
colorful scene, shotgun houses, children playing, elders, fun/work, mixture of homes during different times, church in background, vast landscape, quilt pattern covering houses - no damage
eagle carrying lynch rope, war scenes, image of Tommy Smith and John Carlos’ 1968 Olympics protest, LBJ, Nixon, Dr. King, Wheatley basketball defeating TJ in 1968, skulls, White House, Capitol Building, various protest signs - no damage
Confederate flag, Declaration of Independence, skulls as chain links, men breaking chains, lynching - red, white and blue color pallete - damage from signage
Mills’ Hannah Hall mural reflects on white supremacist violence in the US and Black activism. Key political figures like Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy appear throughout the mural. In the center, a man either lifts or pulls down the American flag to reveal or conceal hidden white supremacists.