(via Jackie Ormes was the first black woman cartoonist to be published in a newspaper | Boing Boing)

When the 14-year-old African American boy Emmett Till was lynched in 1955, one cartoonist responded in a single-panel comic. It showed one black girl telling another: “I don’t want to seem touchy on the subject… but that new little white tea-kettle just whistled at me!” …