Oliver Harrington's Dark Laughter

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2 Oliver W. Harrington ( ). Dark laughter. Now I aint so sure I wanna get educated, Crayon, ink, blue pencil, and pencil on paper. Published in the Pittsburgh Courier, September 21, Prints and Photographs Division (172) Courtesy of Dr. Helma Harrington Digital ID # ppmsca Oliver Harrington's Dark Laughter This cartoon appeared as President Kennedy announced integration of 157 city school districts, not as a milestone, but as progress "slow step by step." Meanwhile some black children continued to live in areas without a public school system as officials attempted to bypass integration. Oliver Harrington, an influential African American cartoonist, published this image during a year of heightened interracial tension in the United States, from his home in East Berlin, Germany. This cartoon appeared in the African American newspaper, the Pittsburgh Courier.

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4 NEW SEARCH HELP TITLE: Martin Luther King press conference CALL NUMBER: LC-U A [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsc (digital file from original negative) No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY: Photograph shows head-and-shoulders portrait of King leaning on a lectern. MEDIUM: 1 negative : film. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1964 Mar. 26. CREATOR: Trikosko, Marion S., photographer. NOTES: Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no , frame 9A. SUBJECTS: King, Martin Luther, Jr., Public appearances. FORMAT: Film negatives Portrait photographs REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C USA DIGITAL ID: (original) ppmsc CARD #:

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6 Olympian Wilma Rudolph Born to a large family in Clarksville, Tennessee, Wilma Rudolph was stricken with polio. As a child, there was scant hope that she would ever walk. However, with the help of her family, who massaged her legs, and regular visits to the hospital, she did not need her brace or corrective shoes by the time she was a teenager. She came to excel at track. Rudolph earned a place on the 1956 U.S. Olympic team and won a bronze medal in the 440 meter relay. In the 1960 Olympics, she won gold medals in the 100 and 200 meter dash, and the 400 meter relay, breaking world records in all three events. Rudolph was the first American woman--black or white--ever to win three gold medals in the Olympics.

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8 We Shall Overcome "We Shall Overcome" seems to have first been sung by striking tobacco workers in Charleston, South Carolina, in In the 1960s the song became the all-but-official anthem of the civil rights movement. Silphia Horton, Frank Hamilton, Guy Carawan, and Pete Seeger. "We Shall Overcome." New York: Ludlow Music, Inc., Music Division. (9-19) Courtesy of Ludlow Music, Inc., 11 West 19th Street New York, NY Its first separate publication, on exhibit here, gives credit of authorship to, among others, Silphia Horton of the Highlander Folk School, who learned the song from the tobacco workers, and Pete Seeger, who helped to popularize the song and gentrified its title from "We Will Overcome."

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10 The Gray Plague With his image of the Grim Reaper coming for those who dared to breathe in America's cities, Herb Block indicated that air pollution had become a major issue by President Lyndon Johnson asked Congress to authorize federal regulation of air quality to protect the environment. When he signed the Air Quality Act of 1967 into law on November 21, 1967, Johnson quoted Dante's Inferno, "... dirty water and black snow pour from the dismal air to...the putrid slush that waits for them below." Published in The Washington Post, January 29, Ink, graphite, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing accompanied by graphite sketch. Herbert L. Block Collection Prints and Photographs Division (5) Digital ID # ppmsca Rough Sketch Digital ID # ppmsca