Douglass, Lincoln, Washington on race and economic justice in the Age

The sixth 1922 post for our annual celebration of Black History Month.

One hundred years ago today … The Age printed an illustration of Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and Booker T. Washington overseeing Black people “marching onward to a bigger and better America.” The drawing, by editorial cartoonist “Russell” (Wilfred Russell, whom we have featured repeatedly), was accompanied by excerpts of speeches from each figure, with a clear theme of linking equal rights for Black people with economic justice.

New York Age, 11 February 1922, p.1. Newspapers.com.

– Jonathan Goldman, Feb. 11, 2022

TAGS: Black history, African American art, Harlem renaissance, race, equality, cartoons, comics