The Wall of Respect was an outdoor mural created in 1967 on a two story building at East 43rd Street and South Langley Avenue in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, painted by fourteen artists of the Visual Arts Workshop of the Organization of Black American Culture, led by William Walker and designed by Laini Abernathy. It featured portraits of African American historical and cultural figures including Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali and Harriet Tubman, and is widely credited as the first large scale outdoor community mural, inspiring more than 1,500 similar murals across the United States within eight years. The building housing it burned in 1971 and was demolished in 1972, and the mural survives only through photographs, including images by Robert A. Sengstacke and Darryl Cowherd. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Year Created LocationEast 43rd Street and South Langley Avenue, Bronzeville, Chicago, Illinois 1 In the Other Atlases
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The Wall of Respect was an outdoor mural first painted in 1967 by the Visual Arts Workshop of the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC).
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paint on masonry
Description section
painted on the sides of two story, closed tavern building at the corner of Chicago's East 43rd Street and South Langley Avenue, in Bronzeville, Chicago, sometimes called the Black Belt.
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The Wall of Respect was an outdoor mural created in 1967 on a two story building at East 43rd Street and South Langley Avenue in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, painted by fourteen artists of the Visual Arts Workshop of the Organization of Black American Culture, led by William Walker and designed by Laini Abernathy.
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