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2 at Bellevue College out after incarceration mural altered

| March 2, 2020 3:05 PM

SEATTLE (AP) — The president and one vice president of Bellevue College will be leaving their jobs, the school announced Monday, after the vice president’s decision to alter a campus mural of two Japanese American children in a World War II incarceration camp by removing a reference to anti-Japanese agitation by Eastside businessmen.

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