- Collection:
- With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty
- Title:
- Norman Rockwell to John A. Morsell, December 3, 1963
- Creator:
- Rockwell, Norman, 1894-1978
- Date of Original:
- 1963-12-03
- Subject:
- Discrimination in education--United States
Segregation in education--United States
Race discrimination--United States
African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century
African Americans in art
Civil rights--United States
African Americans--Civil rights
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - People:
- Morsell, John A.
Rockwell, Norman, 1894-1978 - Location:
- United States, Massachusetts, Berkshire County, 42.37067, -73.2064
United States, Massachusetts, Berkshire County, Stockbridge, 42.28759, -73.32039 - Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- In this letter, written by Norman Rockwell on December 3, 1963 to John A. Morsell, assistant to the Executive Secretary of the NAACP, Rockwell offers his talents as an artist to the NAACP. He expresses his desire to help the cause of civil rights, and he describes a recently finished drawing of an African American schoolgirl that he offers for the NAACP's use.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- http://crdl.usg.edu/id:loc_evenhand_br0155s
- Digital Object URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/images/br0155s.jpg
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty Collection, Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division, Washington, D.C.
- Contributing Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights: