http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/03/29/racist.mural.ap/index.htmlGeorgia school to alter integration muralATHENS, Georgia (AP) -- University of Georgia officials said Monday they would alter a wall-sized mural commemorating the school's integration because of complaints it contained a racial slur.
The mural features a photo of the former Charlayne Hunter, the first black woman admitted to the university, pushing her way through a mob in 1961, along with the highlighted quote of words shouted then: "Make way for the nigger." The mural was criticized by some, including members of the campus chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Hunter-Gault argued against removing the mural. In an opinion piece in the campus newspaper, she said she hoped students who raised the issue "will be part of a solution that will allow those words to stand as a reminder, however painful, that they are the heirs to a legacy of struggle, but also of victory over bigotry."
Officials said the mural would be revised to change the quote to smaller type and use it in context from Hunter-Gault's 1993 book, "In My Place," where she wrote: "As students call out Ni**er go home and a variety of other unoriginal taunts, I found myself more bemused than angry or upset."