Rising Up: Hale Woodruff's Murals at Talladega College August 11, 2012

In February 2011, the High Museum of Art, in collaboration with Talladega College in Alabama, embarked on a two-year project to restore, research and exhibit Hale Aspacio Woodruff's renowned Talladega murals. Commissioned in 1938 to both commemorate the 1867 founding of Talladega College and celebrate its success as one of the nation's first all-black colleges, the murals had been on continuous view at the college since their installation in the lobby of Savery Library.