Long Before "Boondocks"
Against The Current vol. 138

http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/2033
Date Written:  2009-01-01
Publisher:  Against The Current
Year Published:  2009
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX13476

During the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s Black newspapers presented a picture of African-American life rendered invisible by the white media. Like white newspapers, they carried a funnies page where Black readers faithfully followed the foibles of cartoon characters like Ollie Harrington’s “Brother Bootsie,” Samuel Milai’s “Bucky” and Wilbert Holloway’s “Sunny Boy Sam.”