In the 1965 painting Murder in Mississippi, he illustrated the Philadelphia, Mississippi, slaying of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney. ... The result was an intensive five-week session in which he produced charcoal preliminaries, an oil color study, and the large final painting.
painting "Murder in Mississippi", Norman Rockwell ... recalled earlier having been directed by The Saturday Evening Post to remove ... “Post” covers successful—were not needed to describe life in 1960s America.
