signed
by Japanese American, Anti-Racism
[WWII] [African American] [Japanese American] Bill Mauldin Says..."Shut up, kid. You got no business discussin' serious matters." New York: The Writers' Board. 1945. Staple bound wrappers. 8 pages including front and back covers. Measures 5.5" x 7.5". Black and white illustrations by Mauldin throughout. The original speech was made by famous W.W.II era liberal cartoonist, Bill Mauldin when he delivered it at the New York Herald Tribune Forum in 1945, and reprinted from the November issue of the New York Herald Tribune. The front opens with a smiling portrait of the cartoonist with the following speech headlined "Mauldin Says Bigotry at Home Mocks Sacrifices of Soldiers." His speech touches on the racial misconduct of Black Americans and Japanese Americans, and states that we "may have won only battles, not the war to crush hate," and encourages remembrance of "what heroes died for." The cartoons laid within satirize blue collar American biases with one showing an unkempt man in conversation with two car repairmen; "Musta been purty awful, havin' to mix with them there iggerant, uneddicated furriners." Signed by the original owners on the first page "Horace + Ann Fong -- 1943." Overall very good condition.
(Inventory #: 21019)