For most of the murals created in the resort and sponsored by the Atlantic City Arts Foundation during the past three years, the artists were given leeway on subjects and in how they expressed themselves, as long as the end result looked good.
When the organization decided it wanted to pay an artist to create a mural in the image of a specific individual for the first time, the subject selected was the late Madame Sara Spencer Washington.
Washington founded the Apex News and Hair Company in the resort and was one of America’s first Black millionaires. Her mural is located on the exterior of a building on the southeast corner of Atlantic Avenue and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
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