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would have had an opportunity to do one. 
...I was first assigned to help...to work as an apprentice really...to a man doing a mural.
...I'll think of his name. He's quite a famous illustrator now. He does mostly like drawings for Life magazine, this type of thing. They had a series recently on him.
...He was doing beautify work on parks. Now I've forgotten some auditorium called the Head and wanted a park, and I helped him on this. And I learned a great deal all about how to work with canvas, how to enlarge, how to rub it in, all these things make up your preliminary work. 
...After that I was able to get a job...I was given a job to do a mural in the public library. 
...The subject was on the five greatest outstanding Negros. The subject was gotten through running through a Negro newspaper there...who the people thought were the five outstanding Negroes throughout the period say fifty years or one hundred years ago.
...We came out with George Washington Carver, Booker T. Washington, Sojannah True, and Marian Anderson. 
...It's a little hard verbally to describe how I did it, but I picked out little symbolic things to represent the kind of things that Sojannah did, the people she was leading, and Booker T. Washington...That's about as specific as I can describe it. 
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