[Unmarked Package]

'Title is "Southern Justice (Murder in Mississippi)". Painted in 1965.'

I have never seen that eerily lit painting by Norman Rockwell although I am familiar with other works in his series about the Civil Rights Movement. Southern Justice (Murder in Mississippi) is very impressive.

My favorite Rockwell work of that period is "The Problem We All Live With" (see below) that he completed earlier in 1964 which is also on exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA. I was always fascinated with this piece because of the amazing story of courage shown by little six-year-old Ruby Bridges depicted in the painting.

[LowOiL]

Ok, I have started into the middle age spread times... I must admit, I long for Norman Rockwell days and just a tinge of Frahm...

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No, it is not Brittany Spears sorta thing... I promise..

[AnAmericanMother]

I always admired in that painting the anonymity conferred by cutting off the heads of the federal marshals.

Rockwell was thinking all the time about things like that.