Called "The Problem We All Live With," the painting, by Norman Rockwell, was based on the experience in 1960 of a 6-year-old New Orleans girl named Ruby Bridges who was trying to get to her elementary school. The courts had ordered that the school be integrated; certain elements of the community wished otherwise.
President Barack Obama personally approved the painting being displayed in the West Wing. Many reports about it have -- inaccurately -- stated that the painting first appeared on the cover of Look magazine in January of 1964.
