Chapter 24 Visions of Freedom

Submit your answers to these exercises as determined by your instructor.

Norman Rockwell image of African American girl being escorted to school

Credits: Collection of the Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts

  1. What does the painting suggest about therelationship of federal power and individual freedom?
  2. Do you think that Rockwell’s decision to show the mob only indirectly makes the painting more or less powerful?
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