Profile: Ollie Harrington (1912-1995)

Oliver Wendell Harrington was an American cartoonist and an outspoken advocate against racism and for civil rights in the United States. Of multi-ethnic descent, Langston Hughes called him “America’s greatest African-American cartoonist”. Harrington requested political asylum in East Germany in 1961; he lived in Berlin for the last three decades of his life. Continue reading Profile: Ollie Harrington (1912-1995)