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#Flowers š | Black History Edition | Timeline 1991 | Barbara Brandon-Croft | #Cartoonist
Next in the world of cartoons we're going to highlight. Barbara. Barbara Brandoncroft, cartoonist, became the first black woman cartoonist nationally syndicated in the white press. Her comic strip, where I'm coming from, appeared first in the Detroit Free Press and was acquired by Universal Press Syndicate in 1991. Brandon was born in Brooklyn, New York, and her father, Brumsick Brandon Jr. Was creator of the Luther comic strip, which first appeared in the late 1960s. Today we give you your flowers