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Orrin C. Evans

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Orrin Cromwell Evans (1902–1971) was a pioneering African-American journalist and comic book publisher. [1]

34 relations: African Americans, All-Negro Comics, Charles Lindbergh, Civil and political rights, Comic book, Comic Book Resources, Comic strip, Comics Buyer's Guide, Delaware County Daily Times, Detective, ECBACC, Fawcett Comics, Grand Comics Database, Journalist, Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, NAACP, National Urban League, Newsprint, Parents (magazine), Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Bulletin, Philadelphia Tribune, Publishing, Racial equality, Steelton, Pennsylvania, Strike action, The Chicago Defender, The Crisis, The Philadelphia Independent (1931–71), The Philadelphia Record, Time (magazine), World War II, Zoot suit.

African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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All-Negro Comics

All-Negro Comics, published in 1947, was a single-issue, small-press American comic book that represents the first known comics magazine written and drawn solely by African-American writers and artists.

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Charles Lindbergh

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), nicknamed Lucky Lindy, The Lone Eagle, and Slim was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist.

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Civil and political rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.

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Comic book

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.

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Comic Book Resources

Comic Book Resources, also known as CBR, is a website dedicated to the coverage of comic book-related news and discussion.

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Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.

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Comics Buyer's Guide

Comics Buyer's Guide (CBG), established in 1971, was the longest-running English-language periodical reporting on the American comic book industry.

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Delaware County Daily Times

The Delaware County Daily Times is a daily newspaper published in the Primos section of Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania in the United States.

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Detective

A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency.

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ECBACC

The East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC) is the Philadelphia region's first black comic book convention, bringing together hundreds of comic book, science fiction, and fantasy creators, their colleagues, and their fans.

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Fawcett Comics

Fawcett Comics, a division of Fawcett Publications, was one of several successful comic book publishers during the Golden Age of Comic Books in the 1940s.

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Grand Comics Database

The Grand Comics Database (GCD) is an Internet-based project to build a database of comic book information through user contributions.

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Journalist

A journalist is a person who collects, writes, or distributes news or other current information to the public.

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Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story

Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story is a 16-page comic book about Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott published in 1957 by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR USA).

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NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by a group, including, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey.

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National Urban League

The National Urban League (NUL), formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, is a nonpartisan civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States.

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Newsprint

Newsprint is a low-cost non-archival paper consisting mainly of wood pulp and most commonly used to print newspapers and other publications and advertising material.

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Parents (magazine)

Parents, published by Meredith Corporation, is an American mass circulation monthly magazine that features scientific information on child development geared to help parents in raising their children.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Philadelphia Bulletin

The Philadelphia Bulletin was a daily evening newspaper published from 1847 to 1982 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Philadelphia Tribune

The Philadelphia Tribune is the oldest continuously published African-American newspaper in the United States.

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Publishing

Publishing is the dissemination of literature, music, or information—the activity of making information available to the general public.

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Racial equality

Racial equality occurs when institutions give equal opportunity to people of all races.

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Steelton, Pennsylvania

Steelton is a borough in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States, southeast of Harrisburg.

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Strike action

Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.

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The Chicago Defender

The Chicago Defender is a Chicago-based weekly newspaper founded in 1905 by Robert S. Abbott for primarily African-American readers.

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The Crisis

The Crisis is the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

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The Philadelphia Independent (1931–71)

The Philadelphia Independent was a newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, published from 1931 to 1971 that billed itself as "The World's Greatest Negro Tabloid." The paper was founded by Forrest White Woodard, who was born in Norfolk, Virginia on February 12, 1886.

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The Philadelphia Record

The Philadelphia Record was a daily newspaper published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1877 until 1947.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Zoot suit

A zoot suit (occasionally spelled zuit suit) is a men's suit with high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, pegged trousers, and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orrin_C._Evans

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