The Civil Rights Movement Revised Edition

142 THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

HERBLOCK, ‘TSK TSK – SOMEBODY SHOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT,’

3 APRIL 1956

Herblock, an editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post, criticized presi-

dent Dwight Eisenhower for standing on the sidelines after the Browndecision

as racial troubles threatened to burn out of control.

Source: Washington Post, 3 April 1956. From Herblock: A Cartoonist’s Life(Times Books,

1998). Reprinted by permission of The Herb Block Foundation.

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