Ben Shahn: Passion for Justice
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Slavery

In the upper left, a Nazi soldier stands next to anti-Jewish signs. Women wail over coffins containing the bodies of the executed Italian anarchists, Sacco and Vanzetti. Below are the halls of the Ellis Island registry center, and a small image of the Statue of Liberty. A crowd of immigrants streams off a gangplank, Shahn’s mother and the physicist Albert Einstein among them.


homestead mural: detail

Sacco and Vanzetti
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Albert Einstein

 

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