Word: oles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blackwell's charges referred to Kerciu's painting "America the Beautiful," a six-foot wide canvas of a Confederate battle flag smeared with the slogans of the rioters who tried to stop the admission of James Meredith to Ole Miss last September...
...artist's brush would be synonomous with the reporter's pen or typewriter; therefore the censorship seemed unjust--so unjust that several art students protested with signs saying: "Unfair; Ours is a visual language; We protest censorship; Freedom of expression; and Freedom?" As one onlooker remarked, "This proves that Ole Miss can have demonstrations without rioting...
...will the University of Mississippi suppress this freedom of expression because it does not adhere to the principles of certain groups? Is Ole Miss truly a University? SIDNA BROWER, Editor...
...charges of obscenity and desecrating the Confederate flag filed against G. Ray Kerciu, an assistant professor of art at the University of Mississippi, have been dropped, apparently after a deal between Kerciu's lawyer and Charles G. Blackwell, the Ole Miss law school senior who made them...
Kerciu's "America the Beautiful" was part of an exhibition of about 40 of his works which opened April 1 in the Ole Miss Fine Arts Center. University Provost Charles Noyes removed it and four other paintings April 7 after receiving protests from the Mississippi Citizens Council and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Noyes said the painting's "slighting attitude toward the Confederate flag. . . gave distress and offense to many...