A muralist, Adolph deYvon completed a giant patriotic allegory mural, later housed in the New York State Education Department in Albany. Titled "The Genius of America," it included a depiction of a barely clothed black man on his knees being lifted up by a white man. The mural was intended as commentary on America's racist past, but in the late 20th century, it became the subject of much controversy because it was thought offensively racist.
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