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Jackie Ormes : the first African American woman cartoonist
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Jackie Ormes : the first African American woman cartoonist

Author: Nancy Goldstein
Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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. Jackie Ormes chronicles the life of this multiply talented, fascinating woman." "The biography's more than 150 illustrations include photographs of Jackie Ormes and a large sampling  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biographie
Biography
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Goldstein, Nancy, 1942-
Jackie Ormes.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008
(OCoLC)649135566
Named Person: Jackie Ormes; Jackie Ormes; Jackie Ormes
Material Type: Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Nancy Goldstein
ISBN: 9780472116249 047211624X
OCLC Number: 154666470
Description: ix, 225 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
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
Responsibility: Nancy Goldstein.
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"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. Jackie Ormes chronicles the life of this multiply talented, fascinating woman." "The biography's more than 150 illustrations include photographs of Jackie Ormes and a large sampling of her cartoons and color comic strips, including some furnished by cartoonist and cartoon historian Tim Jackson. 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 - and of today's world as well."--BOOK JACKET.

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