Atomic Threat

" For the title of this cartoon, Herb Block quoted from Shakespeare's Macbeth to indicate the folly of President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's failure to agree to limit nuclear testing. Block's famous character, Mr. Atom, snuffed out the light of Test Ban negotiations to represent the darkening mood of the United States during the Cold War."

Environment

Civil Rights

"In many areas, black doctors were excluded from practice in certain medical fields, not only depriving them of opportunities, but depriving many patients of all colors of treatment they might have received."

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Cartoons courtesy of The Herb Block Foundation