• | Refregiers controversial pro labor mural shows men begging for jobs from a corrupt hiring boss The figure at center could be union organizer Harry Bridges and the figures at right mourn two strikers killed on Bloody Thursday July 5 1934 the day the police fired at strikers on Rincon Hill Courtesy Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Art on trial

    Originally published: Living New Deal on January 17, 2025 by Gray Brechin (more by Living New Deal)  | (Posted Jan 24, 2025)

    The New Deal federal art projects never received the popular support Roosevelt himself enjoyed as president.