Jackie Ormes was the creator of several popular comic strips in the 1930s–1950s. She was the female #African American syndicated cartoonist. In a male-dominated industry, Jackie captured a national audience with her fashionable and opinionated characters. Ormes career began as a proofreader and freelance journalist for the Pittsburgh Courier, a #black newspaper which published her […]
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