Norman Rockwell Sketch on "Mississippi Burning" Killings

I never knew this, but Norman Rockwell became socially liberal in his older years and the sketch below is an example. But it seems he never painted it. According to another Beschloss tweet, Rockwell was told by some of his editors at the Saturday Evening Post magazine that he wasn't allowed to portray blacks as anything other than servants.

Norman Rockwell sketch, as he imagined it, of murder of voting rights heroes Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner in Mississippi on this day 1964: pic.twitter.com/wanKj0Xcoz

— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) June 21, 2021

The title of my post comes, of course, from the 1988 movie Mississippi Burning, starring Gene Hackman, about the FBI's search for the bodies of the murdered young men and for those who killed them. A great movie if you've never seen it.