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“YOU ONE OF THOSE EXTREMISTS WHO THINKS IT’S TIME FOR DESEGREGATION?”
A strong supporter of civil rights, Herblock had already created one cartoon in 1962 reminding Americans time had passed to comply with the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision. Seven years later, he depicted President Nixon as a spokesmen for delaying desegregation. African Americans chafed at the lack of sufficient progress and arrests of students in some school districts for registering to attend white schools. When South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond had objected to desegregation, the Nixon administration extended the deadline for compliance.
“You One of Those Extremists Who Thinks It’s Time for Desegregation?” 1969. Published in the Washington Post, October 29, 1969. |