School Desegregation – Object #6

Public Education is Okay -- for Other People’s Kids

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<p>A public school with buses is in the background. The center of the cartoon shows a well-dressed man, near the text “school board members” walking three children into a gate around a building labeled private schools.</p>

Jon Kennedy’s 1971 cartoon shows a school board member walking his three children from a public school to a private school.

Questions:

What is the message of this cartoon?

What does this cartoon tell you about one of the effects of desegregation?

How might this cartoon be different if it was drawn from a different perspective?

Citations

Jon Kennedy Cartoon Collection, (UALR.MS.0023), UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture.