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Jackie Ormes : the first African American woman cartoonist

Author

Goldstein, Nancy, 1942-

Title

Jackie Ormes : the first African American woman cartoonist / Nancy Goldstein.

Format

Book

Published

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008.

Description

ix, 225 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

URL

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Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-213) and index.

Contents

• Small-Town Roots, Big-City Ambitions
• The Chicago Years
• Newspapers, Comic Strips, Cartoons
• Torchy Brown in "Dixie to Harlem"
• Candy
• Patty-Jo 'n' Ginger
• Torchy in Heartbeats
• The Patty-Jo Doll
• Correcting the Record
• Excerpts from the FBI File of Jackie Ormes

Review

In the United States at midcentury - a time of few opportunities for women in general and even fewer for African American women - Jackie Ormes (1911-85) blazed a trail as a popular cartoonist with the major black newspapers of the day. Ormes's work provides an invaluable glimpse into American culture and history, with topics that include racial segregation, U.S. foreign policy, educational equality, the atom bomb, and environmental pollution, among other pressing issues of the times. This biography's more than 150 illustrations include photographs of Jackie Ormes and a large sampling of her cartoons and color comic strips.

Subject headings

Ormes, Jackie, 1911-1985. Cartoonists--United States--Biography. African American women cartoonists--Biography.

ISBN

9780472116249 (cloth : alk. paper) 047211624X (cloth : alk. paper)