We conclude our coverage of African American History Month, with a collection of works by Fred Ellis, longtime cartoonist for The Daily Worker, in which all of the cartoons shown here first appeared.

The above July 13th, 1927 cartoon, depicting a gun-toting plantation owner on horse back, saying Wal’, I Still Got You, from the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.

Click on the above & below pictures, to view enlarged versions.

Below, March 3rd, 1950, refers to the NBC radio & television network’s banning of singer/writer/activist Paul Robeson — who had been scheduled to appear on former First Lady’s The Eleanor Roosevelt Show.

Next, from December 1st, 1951. The cartoon here involves that in the 1940′s, insurance company Met. Life had built low-cost apartment buildings for returning veterans, but excluded black veterans from the apartments (thus, the “Jim Crow” reference). When in 1951 some of the white soldiers protested this, Met. Life had them evicted (click here for more information).

I showed the below cartoon earlier this month, in a collection of Civil Rights cartoons by various cartoonists. I didn’t want to leave this Ellis cartoon out of this set, though. It appeared Spetember 22nd, 1957, and is titled Iron Curtain..

Below, February 28th, 1951, involving the case of Willie McGee, convicted of raping a white woman, and executed on May 8th, 1951.

Below, December 1st, 1951, Jim Crow Decision. Click here for information.

Finally, Stop the Genocide, from November 21st, 1951, referencing the high rate of race-based lynchings and executions happening in the U.S.

Doug Wheeler

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