PHOTOS: Grandfather artist creates Black history portraits hanging at Fairfield High School

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Artist John Wiehe created portraits of civil rights leaders that are displayed on the wall in Fairfield High School cafeteria. The series of paintings called "Connecting Past with Present: The Never-Ending Struggle for Civil Rights" shows 16 people ranging in time from enslavement to the Black Lives Matter movement. NICK GRAHAM  / STAFF
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For the school’s Black History Month celebrations, John Wiehe loaned his series of 16 portraits to the high school display on a wall of a much-traveled hallway at Fairfield High School, where five of his grandchildren graduated.

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