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Hes saying he put the empire first before himself.
Alston directed art programs and community centers in the New York area including the Harlem Workshop. Jacob Lawrence as one of his students at Utopia House. He directed the 35 artists who created the Harlem Hospital murals for the Federal Arts Project in 1935 and 1936, painting two of the murals himself.
A desire to reform the U.S. Also arose out of the second great awakening.
If Im not mistaking it is Francis Scott Key.
