A Story for Our Time: Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms

President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivering Fireside Chat, September 30, 1934 Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum
President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivering Fireside Chat, September 30, 1934
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum

On January 6, 1941, 77 years ago tomorrow, President Franklin Roosevelt (pictured above in 1934) proclaimed the need to defend four essential freedoms—Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear—as a reason for the U.S. to enter World War II. Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms, a major exhibition organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum and opening at the New-York Historical Society on May 25, 2018, tells the story of how the Four Freedoms, as expressed by Rockwell, brought the country together in defense of universal human rights. It is a story for our time.

 

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