Edmund Duffy, was an American editorial cartoonist.
19 Facts About Edmund Duffy
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Edmund Duffy grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey, eventually moving to metropolitan areas.
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Edmund 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.
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Edmund Duffy won three Pulitzer Prizes for Editorial Cartooning in 1931,1934, and 1940.
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Edmund Duffy first came into the journalism field with his submission of a page of sketches for Armistice Day.
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Edmund Duffy worked on a variety of assignments in order to save up money, then launching his European career.
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Edmund Duffy moved to London and worked for the London Evening News.
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Edmund Duffy worked in Paris for a few years, and he finally returned to the United States in 1922.
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Edmund Duffy worked for two years with both the New York Leader and the Brooklyn Eagle.
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Edmund Duffy worked there until 1948, in order to work a less tiring job, working for the Saturday Evening Post.
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Edmund Duffy drew numerous noteworthy cartoons, approaching major issues and incidents, such as lynching and the Ku Klux Klan, but the famous Monkey Scopes Trial of 1925.
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Edmund Duffy was known for his daring nature in relation to his work.
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Edmund 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.
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Just a year after Edmund Duffy began working for The Baltimore Sun, 1925, a famous trial began in Tennessee.
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Since the trial was popular and a nationwide topic, Mencken took a staff from The Sun, including Edmund Duffy, to cover the trial.
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Edmund Duffy's cartoons brought more attention to the issue, as he derided Tennessee for crushing knowledge in one of his more notable cartoons from the trial called 'A Closed Book in Tennessee.
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Edmund Duffy knew that this powerful cartoon would cause a great response, but that is exactly what Mencken wanted and expected from him.
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Over Edmund Duffy's career, he won three Pulitzer Prizes, which is a lot compared to other recipients over the years.
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At the time, communism was seen as being anti-religion, which is what Edmund Duffy conveys in the cartoon.