Preservation Idaho, the state’s leading historic preservation group, has sent a letter to University of Idaho officials asking them not to cover two historic murals depicting the lynching of a Native American man in the former Ada County Courthouse when it reopens as the new Idaho Law & Justice Learning Center later this summer, with occupants including the UI College of Law and some operations of the Idaho Supreme Court. “Idahoans have not destroyed the sites of the Bear River Massacre, the Minidoka Internment Camp, or Massacre Rocks State Park,” said the letter from the group’s president, Paula Benson. “We deplore what happened at the sites but we acknowledge them so that we may reflect and learn from past mistakes”/Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise. More here.

Question: Should the lynching murals be covered?

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