ART OF THE STRUGGLE

Civil rights activist El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, known as Malcolm X, visited the College in January 1965, just weeks before his assassination. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of his visit, the Hood Museum is releasing a brochure this fall to bring attention to the history and meaning behind Cutter Shabazz Hall’s The Temple Murals: The Life of Malcolm X (below), painted by Florian Jenkins in 1972 to honor the civil rights leader and depict the struggle of the black experience at Dartmouth. Although Dartmouth and the rest of the world have come a long way in the half-century since Malcolm X’s visit, the struggle rendered in the murals remains. “It’s always going to be relevant,” Jen- kins says. “It’s more subtle now, it’s less overt than it was, but it’s still there.”