| LC control no. | n 86145370 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Harrington, Oliver W. (Oliver Wendell), 1912-1995 |
| Variant(s) | Harrington, Oliver Harrington, Ollie, 1912-1995 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Germany (East) |
| Birth date | 1912-02-14 |
| Death date | 1995-11-02 |
| Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Berlin (Germany) |
| Affiliation | National Academy of Design (U.S. : 1828-1997) New York University Yale University. School of Art Pittsburgh Courier |
| Profession or occupation | Cartoonists |
| Found in | NUCMC data from Boston Univ. Lib. for Fax, E.C. Papers, 1912-1982 (Oliver Harrington; b. 1913; Black artist) LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Harrington, Oliver) His Why I left America, c1993: CIP t.p. (Oliver W. Harrington) Dark laughter, 1993: t.p. (Oliver W. Harrington) p. xi (Oliver Wendell Harrington; b. Feb. 14, 1912 in Valhalla, New York) Bootsie and others, 1958: t.p. (Ollie Harrington) BGMI, Oct. 30, 2008 (Harrington, Oliver W., 1912-1995) African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Harrington, Oliver W.; Oliver Wendell Harrington; cartoonist / comic strip creator; born 14 February 1912 in New York, New York, United States; attended the National Academy of Design school; joined the Harlem Newspaper Club; in 1933 submitted cartoons to the Amsterdam News; during the next two years attended art classes at New York University; joined the staff of the "News" (1935); bachelor of fine arts degree from Yale University (1940); art editor for a new Harlem newspaper the People's Voice; war correspondent for the Pittsburgh Courier in Italy and France, covered African American troops, including the Tuskegee Airmen(1943-19440; joined a number of political committees in support of the American Labor Party and Communists; arrested in violation of the Smith Act; art editor of Freedom (1950); taught art at the Jefferson School for Social Sciences (1950); FBI opened a file on on him which made him leave the United States for France (1952) and later settle in East Berlin; died 02 November 1995 in East Berlin, East Germany) |
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