A Mural Intended For L.A.’s Union Station But Placed In Storage For 27 Years Is Going Up At Last

The reason Barbara Carrasco’s mural was in storage for so long? Attempted censorship. “The CRA requested cuts of former African American slave-turned-entrepreneur and philanthropist Biddy Mason, the Japanese American internments during World War II and the 1943 Zoot Suit riots, in which Navy personnel attacked Mexican American youth. Carrasco refused to paint over her work, and the mural project was canceled.”