Inch by inch – Historic Reproduction
![Inch by inch, 1960 Sept. 1 [publication date] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fe/fede396b3d4f-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Inch by inch comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Inch by inch" is the title of this 1960 editorial cartoon by Bill Mauldin, which ran in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on September 1, 1960, as many schools were opening for the fall term. Its subject, school segregation, traced back to the 1954 Supreme Court decision in *Brown v. Board of Education*, which ruled that separate public schools were unconstitutional. The ruling's follow-up called for desegregation "with all deliberate speed," and in many Southern districts progress came slowly and only under court pressure. Mauldin, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, used the drawing to comment on that gap between the court's ruling and the classroom. The Library of Congress later included it in its 2004 exhibition marking fifty years since *Brown*.
| Created / published | 1960 Sept. 1 [publication date] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on layered paper board : crayon, ink, blue pencil and white out over pencil. |
| Genre | Editorial cartoons 1960.Drawings 1960. |
| Notes | Gift; Bill Mauldin; 1975; (DLC/PP-1975:078.568). Published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 1, 1960. Exhibited in: With an even hand: Brown v. Board of Education at fifty years, Library of Congress, 2004. Forms part of the Papers of Bill Mauldin (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Segregation--1960. Schools--1960. School children--1960. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,187 × 5,145 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-209258 |
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