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|medium=Installation | |medium=Installation | ||
|date_of_action=February 27, 2014 | |date_of_action=February 27, 2014 | ||
|location=Kennesaw, | |location=Kennesaw, Georgia, USA | ||
|description_of_content=The piece contains text from a 19th-century letter by Corra Harris, a Georgia novelist, who justified the lynching of a black man near Newnan. | |description_of_content=The piece contains text from a 19th-century letter by Corra Harris, a Georgia novelist, who justified the lynching of a black man near Newnan. | ||
|description_of_incident=Ruth Stanford’s installation "A Walk in the Valley” was removed a week before the opening of the Zuckerman Museum of Art after KSU officials became concerned that the work would offend viewers and inflame issues of race. The University said “A Walk in the Valley” was pulled because it did not fit the “celebratory nature” of the opening. | |description_of_incident=Ruth Stanford’s installation "A Walk in the Valley” was removed a week before the opening of the Zuckerman Museum of Art after KSU officials became concerned that the work would offend viewers and inflame issues of race. The University said “A Walk in the Valley” was pulled because it did not fit the “celebratory nature” of the opening. | ||
