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AmericansQuestion Bicentennial mural and figures
Opinion essays criticize a Washington mural for depicting Marx Engels Stalin and Mao with U.S. figures omitted. The piece calls it a coarse insult to American history and questions the National Bicentennial planning. It notes communal enthusiasm but condemns the muralist’s choices as in poor taste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
District of Columbia
Washington
White House
H. H. Bookers
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
Marx
Joseph Stalin
Soviet Union
Mao Tse-tuing
Nixon
Tricia Nixon Cox
Angela Davis
Jefferson
Tom Paine
Ben Franklin
Adams Family
Washington Irving
Mark Twain
Carl Sandburg
Winslow Homer
Frederic Remington
Thomas Hart Benton
Francis Scott Key
George M. Cohan
John Philip Sousa
Louis Armstrong
Samuel Gompers
Engels
Stalin
Mao
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