Freedom of Speech
Painting by Norman Rockwell, titled 'Freedom of Speech': a working man in a worn jacket stands to speak at a town meeting, faces turned up toward him by seated neighbours. The plainly dressed speaker makes an ordinary citizen the carrier of an abstract principle, a plain-folks and glittering-generalities appeal.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Norman Rockwell for The Saturday Evening Post; Office of War Information
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Norman Rockwell for The Saturday Evening Post. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-75 (NAID 513536).
Text on the object
NORMAN ROCKWELL Freedom of Speech [imprint:] PAINTED BY NORMAN ROCKWELL FOR THE SATURDAY EVENING POST [booklet text, partly legible:] [illegible] AL REPORT [illegible]
