- Collection:
- With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty
- Title:
- Dark laughter. Now I aint so sure I wanna get educated, 1963.
- Creator:
- Harrington, Oliver W. (Oliver Wendell), 1912-
- Date of Original:
- 1963-09-21
- Subject:
- Discrimination in education--United States
Segregation in education--United States
African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century
African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights--United States
African American cartoonists
African American boys--United States
African American students--United States
Mobs--United States - Location:
- United States, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, 40.44062, -79.99589
- Medium:
- political cartoons
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- A political cartoon from 1963 depicting two African American boys running down a road on their way to school, being followed by an angry mob of white adults. This cartoon was originally published in the Pittsburgh Courier, an African American newspaper. Oliver W. Harrington drew this cartoon in response to the integration of 157 public city school districts across the United States.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- http://crdl.usg.edu/id:loc_evenhand_br0172s
- Digital Object URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/images/br0172s.jpg
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
- Contributing Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
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