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Black Mountain College’s Legacy

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Black Mountain College’s Legacy – The experimental college that was located outside Asheville had an outsized influence on American arts and culture. One of its many breakthroughs was inviting renowned African American artist Jacob Lawrence to become a summer teacher there at a time when Jim Crow was very much in force in North Carolina. Darin Waters and Marcus Harvey talk with the executive director of the Black Mountain College Museum, Jeff Arnal, about preserving the legacy of the school.