New Kids in the Neighborhood For decades, Norman was known for his created images that both reflected and shaped America. During 1967 Rockwell began receiving more attention as a painter when he chose more serious subjects from appealing scenes of everyday life to powerful images documenting the American Civil Rights Movement. Through out his life, Rockwell was concerned with political issues, such as racism, poverty, and social injustice. This is when America was experiencing the civil rights movements it was a popular belief among many whites that the presence of blacks in a white neighborhood would bring down property values. Families from different cultures and backgrounds were beginning to live in the same neighborhoods, eat at the same restaurants, and sit next to each other on buses. Rockwell created a fictional scene in which two black siblings and their fluffy white cat, whose family has just moved into a white suburbs, their furniture line up on the lawn behind them, next to a moving truck being emptied of curious white kids from the neighborhood and their curious dog. The picture showed an investigative article on black settlement in the suburbs. “By examining this paintings, including the form and composition, we demonstrate that Rockwell’s painting achieve rhetorical significance in two ways. First, they evoke common humanity by visually disregarding established caricatures, making African Americans visible in ways that negated the inferior character tropes that were the norm of the white-authored advertisements, movies, and public discourse of the period. This quote shows me as a reader, that Rockwell demonstrates how his images provided Americans with a vocabulary for describing themselves, their country, and their experiences. Second, Rockwell’s paintings evoked common humanity by creating recognition of