Harrington, Oliver Wendell

Harrington, Oliver Wendell
▪ 1996

      African-American cartoonist and illustrator who used humour and satire to criticize racism and other social problems in the U.S.; he immigrated to France in the late 1940s and settled in East Berlin in 1961 (b. Feb. 14, 1912—d. Nov. 2, 1995).

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