Tuesday, 31 March 2015

History Alive Step Two – Beginning Research

Topic Idea:

1. Who: Norman Rockwell

2. What: A 20th-century American painter and illustrator

3. Where: United States

4. When: 1894 (Birth) - 1978 (Death)

5. Why is your topic important?
Although Rockwell might only be a painter and an illustrator, the work he has accomplished had a great deal of effect. His career encompassed two World Wars, a Great Depression, and a Civil Rights movement. For more than 50 years, Rockwell's paintings were among the most recognizable in America.

6. How is your topic related to Civil Rights in America?
Norman Rockwell was the painter for the Ruby Bridges painting "The Problem We All Live With". The painting is an iconic image of the civil rights movement that shows Ruby Bridges walking into an all white public school as the first African American to have done so during the process of desegregation. It shows many important details that can be seen in the painting itself.



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