In June, UCSF announced it would destroy or move Bernard Zakheim’s New Deal-era mural to make way for construction.
While the school offered to digitize the frescoes, many say it will erase the already little-known history of Bridget “Biddy” Mason, who arrived in California enslaved, but worked to become one of the state’s first trained physicians.
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