More than 100 people filled the lobby of a San Francisco high school on Thursday to see a mural of George Washington that has been ordered destroyed because its depiction of slaves and the subjugation of Native American is deemed by some to be racist.

The San Francisco United School District allowed the public inside George Washington High School to see the 13-panel, 1,600-square work "Life of Washington," which the school board voted on June 25 to paint over.

The massive mural shows Washington at various points in his life, with images of slaves working at his Mount Vernon home and a dead Native American killed in America's westward expansion.