Local government, university and business leaders issued statements on Monday night denouncing the
On Friday, the logo of a white supremacist organization classified by the
Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group was stenciled in a red substance over an image of King on the mural, which depicts photos from the civil rights leader’s 1965 visit to Penn State. A public works crew worked quickly to clean the graffiti from the mural at 131 S. Fraser St.
Leaders from the Happy Valley Adventure Bureau, Chamber of Business & Industry of Centre County, Downtown State College Improvement District, State College Borough, Centre County Board of Commissioners and Penn State condemned the vandalism.