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LION IN THE STREETS
Reacting to five days of violence as a result of police brutality in Newark, New Jersey, Herblock compares the anger over injustice in the slums to a wild lion with which the United States government had offered no real solution. When a taxi driver had required hospitalization because of a police beating, local citizens intended to hold a peaceful demonstration. However, violence erupted, leaving twenty-six people, mostly African American, dead. This cartoon ran the day before a similar riot erupted in Detroit, Michigan.
Lion in the Streets, 1967. Published in the Washington Post, July 21, 1967. |