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THE "FUNNIES": A SOCIETAL MIRROR

Adam Green, assistant professor of history, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, speaking about Chicago's African-American cartoonists, with particular emphasis on the 1940s, the work of Chicago Defender editorial cartoonist, Jay Jackson, and the need for serious study of cartoons and other graphics in African-American newspapers for important insights into the times in which they appear.