American cartoonists

classified as a member of one racial group is also accepted as a member of another racial group. Generally, “passing” is done to make a person’s life easier. However, the sense of loss may not be understood. Her nephew is of mixed racial ancestry, African-American and Caucasian. His parents were still in high school when he was born. The young couple wanted to get married, but her father forbid such an interracial union during the late 1960’s. To this day, the adult child has not met his father…

and unify the previously unrepresented cartoonists and animators in Hollywood. The Guild enjoyed success during its first year, representing the animators of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, or MGM, as well as those of the Walter Lantz Studios. Through collective bargaining, the Screen Cartoonist’s Guild was able to effectively raise the wages for 115 members at the studios it represented.…

(1890) and The Rambillicus Book (1903). His comic strips included Fatty Felix, Hank the Hermit, Absent-Mined Abner, and Peck's Bad Boy.[5] Another noted political cartoon appeared in Philadelphia's The North American in 1903: when Pennsylvania Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker—long mocked by cartoonists as a parrot—championed a libel bill banning the portrayal of politicians as animals, McDougall caricatured Pennypacker and his supporters as a tree, beer stein, potato, turnip, squash, and chestnut…

1865 was the start of a brand new period in American history; Reconstruction. After the Civil War, the United States was left in ruins so the North helped the South rebuild and make it easier for them to rejoin the Union. Northerners and Republicans tried to help, but their efforts weren 't very successful. Reconstruction was a failure. During Reconstruction, African Americans gained many rights , but these rights didn 't last very long. Their voting rights were restricted, segregation laws were…

mundane life behind. He decided to drop out of school and follow in his brother Roy’s footsteps by enlisting. However, “Walt Disney is too young to enlist in the armed service, but he alters his birth date on an application form so he can join the American…

Geronimo: A True American The brave Bedonkohe Apache leader Geronimo was able to accomplish many astonishing feats before he died at the age of seventy-nine in 1909. Some of these achievements include continuing his journey of bettering the lives of his people despite his own family being murdered when he was only twenty-nine (27). Geronimo fully embodies the hard-working and no excuses attitude that many Americans strive for. Geronimo in many ways possesses the same moral code and ideas that…

Nast was undoubtedly the most successful and influential illustrator in American history and his political cartoons had considerable influence over the nation during the second half of the nineteenth century. His impact on American public life was noted enough to profoundly affect the outcome of presidential election during that period. Nast was involved in the creation or refinement of some of the most iconic images in American history: the elephant for the Republican party, the donkey for the…

my desire for an American one. I wanted nothing to do with being Vietnamese or Asian because all that it had brought me was a sense of inferiority and constant bullying. My desire to suppress my Vietnamese identity brings up a point that is brought up by Ms. Mori, the protagonist’s friend with benefits. During one of their conversations, she asks, “So why are we supposed to not forget our culture? Isn’t my culture right here since I was born here?” (73). She is a Japanese American who has…

reached widespread acceptance in the late 1860’s. In the 1870’s a political cartoonist, Thomas Nast started to popularize the idea.…

Executive Order 9066, issued February 19, 1942, was a controversial order signed by president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, endearingly referred to by historians as FDR. Under the terms of this executive order, more than 110,000 Americans of Japanese descent were forcibly moved to internment camps located in the Western United States. FDR, at the time a third-term president who had just guided the nation through the Great Depression, was faced with the first foreign attack on US soil since 1918 –…