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• Collection: Cartoon Drawings: Herblock Collection

• Title: "Race" / Herblock.
• Creator(s): Block, Herbert, 1909-2001, artist
• Date Created/Published: 1968 May 28.
• Medium: 1 drawing : graphite, ink, opaque white over graphite underdrawing ; 55.8 x 38.1 cm. (sheet)
• Summary: Editorial cartoon shows two African American men running. One man representing "progress" is closely followed by a second man representing "violence." Which approach will prevail? Pulling ahead of his angry looking brother, the figure of "progress" signals hope for continuing gains in the struggle. [Source: some portions from exhibit caption]
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-19989 (digital file from original drawing)
• Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "Herbert Block ("Herblock") Rights and Restrictions,"(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/271_herb.html)
  
• Call Number: BLOCK, no. 7070 (BB size) [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Caption label from exhibit Art in Action Civil Rights: Which Way Forward? This cartoon appeared weeks after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1968. The tragedy unleashed widespread burning and looting in many cities including Washington, D.C. The loss of life, injuries, and massive destruction in the nation's capital compelled the city to increase its police force in order to quell growing lawlessness and acknowledge the need to do more to address citizens' hopelessness. In this metaphor for a crisis in racial relations in America, Herblock asks the viewer which runner will win. By showing the figure of "Progress" pulling ahead of "Violence," Herblock signals hope for continuing gains in civil rights for all.
  • Caption label from exhibit "Herblock!" (2009) "Everything's [Not] Okay": Devastating losses for the civil rights movement occurred in 1968. The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1968, and the widespread burning and looting in many cities that immediately followed resulted in massive destruction, injuries, and the death of protestors. Showing two African American men running, one representing Progress, the other, Violence, Herblock seems to ask which approach will prevail. Pulling ahead of his angry-looking brother, the figure of Progress signals hope for continuing gains in the struggle.
  • Title from item.
  • Signed "Herblock" lower left.
  • Copyright, 1968, by The Washington Post Co.
  • Forms part of: Herbert L. Block Collection (Library of Congress).
  • Exhibited in: "Herblock!" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2009-2010.
  • Exhibited: "Art in Action : Herblock and Fellow Artists Respond to Their Times" in the Graphic Arts Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., January 31 - August 17, 2019.
• Subjects:
  • African Americans--Men--1960-1970.
  • Racism--1960-1970.
  • Civil rights--1960-1970.
• Format:
  • Drawings--1960-1970.
  • Editorial cartoons--1960-1970.
• Collections:
  • Cartoon Drawings: Herblock Collection
• Part of: Block, Herbert, 1909-2001. Herbert L. Block collection (Library of Congress)
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• Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "Herbert Block ("Herblock") Rights and Restrictions," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/271_herb.html
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-19989 (digital file from original drawing)
• Call Number: BLOCK, no. 7070 (BB size) [P&P]
• Medium: 1 drawing : graphite, ink, opaque white over graphite underdrawing ; 55.8 x 38.1 cm. (sheet)

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• Call Number: BLOCK, no. 7070 (BB size) [P&P]
• Medium: 1 drawing : graphite, ink, opaque white over graphite underdrawing ; 55.8 x 38.1 cm. (sheet)

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