page_title: Edmund Duffy
section_title: Denouncing racism through art
hierarchical_section_title: Edmund Duffy / Journalism career / Denouncing racism through art
caption_attribution_description: English: Edmund Duffy Depiction of the lynching of a man (Matthew Williams). His body is hanging from a tree. The rope is around his neck and pulled over a tree branch. There is a bandage wrapped around his head and his hands and feet are depicted as though he is jerking in pain. His fingers are splayed and toes are curled. There are small figures of people and houses at the bottom of the drawing.
context_page_description: Edmund Duffy, was an American editorial cartoonist. He grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey, eventually moving to metropolitan areas. Duffy did not attend high school, but instead went into the Art Students League of New York. Duffy's career took him to London, Paris, New York, and finally to Baltimore, where he spent the majority of his professional career working for The Baltimore Sun.
  Duffy won three Pulitzer Prizes for Editorial Cartooning in 1931, 1934, and 1940. Duffy began working for the Baltimore Sun in 1924, when he was only about 25 years old, and he received high praise from the famous journalist H.L. Mencken.
context_section_description: Duffy was known for his daring nature in relation to his work. H.L. Mencken saw promise in his work and “Duffy with his sometimes savage artwork, did the kind of thing that delighted Mencken, who loved nothing more than to ‘stir up the animals’”. Duffy was not afraid to please Mencken, and held nothing back  He was one of the few people of his time that would boldly approach the topic of racism.  He blatantly condemned lynching and the actions of the KKK.  This was one of his main issues that he approached during his career.  During the time period that Duffy worked it was not popular to advocate against racism, so Duffy was civil rights before it was a wide movement in the United States. S.L. Harrison, a late professor of Communication at the University of Miami, wrote that Duffy “displayed uncommon vigor in attacking the Ku Klux Klan”.
caption: Maryland, My Maryland!, a lithograph from ca. 1931, depicts the lynching of Matthew Williams.
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