Slow Pace of Integration
"I'm eight. I was born on the day of the
Supreme Court decision,"
May 17, 1962
Political cartoonist Herb Block, better known by his pen name Herblock championed civil rights throughout his career. Eight years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, in the 1954 case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, he penned this cartoon expressing his dismay at the country's slow progress toward educational integration. In his 1964 book, Straight Herblock, he wrote, "The racist demagogues and rulers of state fiefdoms need not send to know for whom the school bell tolls. It tolls for them."
Online Resource: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-aftermath.html
Credit: Herblock in The Washington Post