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January 15, 2007


MLK Day As A Chance To Recall The Civil Rights Movement: Various Cartoons

Included within a Library of Congress slide show marking the 50th anniversary of Brown Vs. Board of Education were a number of cartoons on the equal opportunities for schooling aspects of the movement. You can read the whole thing with contextual articles at the link above (you'll need to scroll down a bit to get to the cartoons), but here are direct links to the art:

* Bill Mauldin: What is done in our classrooms today will be reflected in the successes or failures of civilization tomorrow.
* Bill Mauldin: Inch by Inch
* Herb Block: I'm eight.
* Herb Block: If the government doesn't support separate-but-equal schools for our children, it's guilty of discrimination!
* Herb Block: And remember, nothing can be accomplished by taking to the streets.
* Oliver Harrington: Now I aint so sure I wanna get educated
* Vincent Smith: First Day of School (Not Comics)
* Herb Block: ... One nation... indivisible...

Related: The Cartoonists Group has "civil rights" as one of its subcategories, if you want to see modern comics on the subject matter from artists like Candorville's Darrin Bell... the Clifford H. Baldowski collection has a ton of civil rights-related cartoons, easily searchible from the gateway page... here is a study guide in PDF Form for a look at Paul Conrad's perspective on issues of the Civil Rights era.
 
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