Murder in Mississippi, as named by the artist, is a 1965 painting by Norman Rockwell which was commissioned for an article titled "Southern Justice" in the American magazine Look.

The painting depicts the 1964 murders of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, and was intended to illustrate an article written on the murders by civil rights attorney Charles Morgan Jr.[1] The painting is oil on canvas 53 × 42 inches (134.5 × 106.5 cm), and also has a pencil on board study of the same title,[2] both of which reside in the collections of the Norman Rockwell Museum.

A preparatory study in black and white shows the complete horizontal picture with Price pointing a pistol, and several klansmen with sticks (incorrectly, as they were later found to have had rifles).

However, when reduced to the left page only, the murderers on both sides of the young men were removed, leaving only the shadows cast from the group on the right.

[6] The oil sketch for Murder in Mississippi is also known as Southern Justice after the title of the article where it appeared instead of the finished painting on June 29, 1965.