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Ferociouskitty
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Posted on Tuesday, April 01, 2008 - 11:00 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

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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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/books/review/Wolk2-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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Chrishayden
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A Black woman to be proud of.

I wonder why she faded out?
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Cynique
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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.
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Troy
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