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Jackie Ormes was the first black woman to become a nationally syndicated cartoonist in the US and for many years the only one. Beginning in 1937, her comics appeared in African American newspapers, the Pittsburgh Courier and Chicago Defender. Her characters Torchy Brown and Patty-Jo and Ginger were well-educated and fashionably dressed, helping break down racial and gender stereotypes common in popular culture at the time. Ormes grew up in Monongahela.
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