{"id":4856,"date":"2023-05-11T11:06:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T11:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/?p=4856"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:51:15","slug":"samuel-r-joyner-cartoonist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/2023\/05\/11\/samuel-r-joyner-cartoonist\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel R. Joyner, Cartoonist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This month\u2019s pop-up exhibit in the Special Collections Research Center <\/a>features the work of Samuel R. Joyner, an editorial cartoonist and teacher. He is among the small number of African American cartoonists in the United States. Born in 1924, Joyner graduated from the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Arts (now the University of the Arts) in 1948. He attended the Teacher Certification program at Temple University and taught graphics communications\/silk screening at Rhodes Middle School and Edward Bok Vocational High Schools from 1971 to 1990. Samuel R. Joyner died on March 24, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This exhibit features historical documents and original cartoons from the Joyner Artwork Collection<\/a> in the Special Collections Research Center and displays both his talent and his views about popular issue such as the civil rights struggle, social commentary, and black achievement. In addition to the Philadelphia Tribune<\/em>, his cartoons appeared in major periodicals such as The Houston Sun, The Milwaukee Times<\/em>, and the Messenger Magazine. <\/em>

–Brenda Galloway-Wright, Associate Archivist, SCRC
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