Rockwell left high school early to study art full time at the National Academy of Design before he enrolled in the Art Students League in New York City. ... The Problem We All Live With is one of Rockwell's most famous illustrations concerning civil rights; it embodies the hardships that black children went through during the period of desegregation in schools. He shows a young, black girl walking to school surrounded by U.S. marshals, and a tomato is smashed on the wall behind her. ... "They are the freedoms for which we fought; they are the words inscribed in the Charter of the Unite...

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