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Ferociouskitty
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Post Number: 160
Registered: 02-2008
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Jackie Ormes, nee Zelda Mavin Jackson, was a journalist, artist, socialite and progressive political activist, a well-known figure in Chicago’s black community in the ’50s and ’60s. She was also, as the subtitle of Nancy Goldstein’s biography indicates, the first African-American woman to write and draw widely distributed comic strips: four different series, published between 1937 and 1956 in black newspapers including The Pittsburgh Courier and The Chicago Defender. Ormes was well ahead of her time; the first black woman to create a syndicated daily strip for mainstream papers was Barbara Brandon-Croft, whose “Where I’m Coming From” didn’t appear until 1989.
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Chrishayden
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Post Number: 6530
Registered: 03-2004
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A Black woman to be proud of.
I wonder why she faded out? |
Cynique
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Post Number: 11983
Registered: 01-2004
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An interesting article. I vaguely remember this woman. The description of her cartoons that appeared in the Chicago Defender jogs my memory. |
Troy
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Post Number: 1175
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More info about the book: http://www.aalbc.com/authors/zelda.htm
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