Bix Archer, B.A. 2019, Education and Public Programs Fellow at the Brooklyn Museum, explores the historical, artistic, and biographical significance of John Wilson’s 1952 mural, The Incident. Inspired by the work of radical Mexican muralists, Wilson painted what he termed “an exorcism”—a vision of the violence that haunted African American life, a reality at odds with the Cold War rhetoric of American freedom and progress. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Reckoning with “The Incident”: John Wilson’s Studies for a Lynching Mural. Space is limited.