Last updated: March 7, 2024
Place
Social Programs
Photo: NPS / Kelsey Graczyk
Quick Facts
Amenities
3 listed
Braille, Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits, Tactile Exhibit
Visitors see the five-panel mural that occupies the back of the wall dividing Room Two into two halves. They also see the five columns that they may deduct tie in somehow with the five panels of the mural. “Social Programs” was created by Robert Graham. Confusing to most visitors are the squares depicting people involved in some kind of activity, the human body parts coming out from the bronze panels, the acronyms, the Braille symbols. The key to unlocking the mystery starts when they discover the list of New Deal programs on the bottom right corner of the left panel and realize that the figures on the columns are reverse of the ones on the mural panels and represent the idea of rolling out programs to create a positive effect on the economy.
Inscriptions:
“I Propose To Create A Civilian Conservation Corps To Be Used In Simple Work … More Important, However, Than The Material Gains Will Be The Moral And Spiritual Value Of Such Work.”
“We Must Scrupulously Guard The Civil Rights And Civil Liberties Of All Our Citizens, Whatever Their Background. We Must Remember That Any Oppression, Any Injustice, Any Hatred, Is A Wedge Designed To Attack Our Civilization.”
Inscriptions:
“I Propose To Create A Civilian Conservation Corps To Be Used In Simple Work … More Important, However, Than The Material Gains Will Be The Moral And Spiritual Value Of Such Work.”
“We Must Scrupulously Guard The Civil Rights And Civil Liberties Of All Our Citizens, Whatever Their Background. We Must Remember That Any Oppression, Any Injustice, Any Hatred, Is A Wedge Designed To Attack Our Civilization.”