Editorial cartoon by the great Rollin Kirby from 1925. A time when teaching subjects such as human evolution could be quite difficult in states such as Tennessee. (See The State of Tennessee vs. John Thomas Scopes).
Last year a Tennessee school district voted to remove Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel. Maus, from its curriculum. The board stated that the book contained objectionable language and disturbing images.
Spiegelman commented at the time that he got the impression the school board was asking “Why can’t they teach a nicer holocaust?”
Here’s Kirby’s cartoon and news clippings from 1925:
From Highlights: A Cartoon History of the Nineteen Twenties by Rollin Kirby, 1931
