Edmund
Duffy was
born in 1899. He joined the Baltimore Sun
as a cartoonist in 1924. The following year he went to Tennessee with
H. L. Mencken to report on the Scopes
Trial. The two men worked together for the next twenty-five years.
Mencken valued Duffy's work very highly and once remarked: "Give
me a good cartoonist and I can throw out half the editorial staff."
Edmund Duffy, Baltimore Sun
(6th December, 1931)
Duffy
was one of the few white cartoonists willing to speak out against
racial injustice. This included attacks on lynching
and the Ku Klux Klan.
Duffy won the Pulitzer Prize
for cartooning three times: An Old Struggle
Still Goes On (1931), California
Points With Pride (1934) and The
Outstretched Hand (1940). Edmund Duffy died in 1962.
Edmund Duffy, Baltimore
Sun
(23rd January, 1928)
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