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William Willard Sanders (October 14, 1930 – February 27, 2021) was an American

civil rights.[1][2]

Early life, education and family

Sanders was born on October 14, 1930, in Springfield, Tennessee, where he spent his early childhood. His parents moved to Pompano Beach, Florida, where he was an All-State basketball player[3] for Pompano Beach High School and played quarterback for the football team. He attended Western Kentucky University on a football scholarship and established a single season NCAA passing record, completing 66.7% of his passes in 1953.[4] At WKU, he met and married Joyce Wallace. They have four daughters, Cathy, Vicky, Cheryl and Denese.

Career

Sanders served in the

Ft. Myers, Florida
, where he drew and wrote for his blog, Sanders Cartoon-Commentary.

Controversy and attacks

Sanders career has been marked by controversy.

general because one of the episodes involved the general and a Korean prostitute.[7]

Shortly after he started work for The Kansas City Star, the

Letters Editor said that Sanders had “caused more letters in a month then we've had in the last five years.”[8] In an interview with Holiday magazine, Star columnist Bill Vaughn said readers would suddenly “call us up in the middle of the night, denouncing us as comsymps, nigger lovers and pree-verts.”[9]

The

Saturday Review, in an article titled “When Extremists Attack the Press” said Sanders’ “editorial commentaries can make the opposition gag on its breakfast.”[12] Sanders added to the controversy surrounding him when he sued a local Catholic Church for disturbing the peace with its early morning bell ringing.[13]

When Sanders moved to The Milwaukee Journal, he came into conflict with

Lee Dreyfus criticized The Milwaukee Journal for its political cartoonist “who plays the hillbilly kid while living in Elm Grove.”[19]

His cartoons critical of the way Milwaukee police officers seemed to fade into anonymity after disputed arrest tactics resulted in the editor of the police newsletter coming into the Journal contact editor’s office calling Sanders “a dirty, filthy man,” and demanding to know why the Journal kept “pigs” on the paper.[20] In a feature article on Sanders, Newsweek described him as the “Milwaukee Journal’s ornery and unorthodox house cartoonist,” whose “stinging bite rivals that of Herblock.” [21]

In addition to national syndication, his cartoons were frequently reprinted in

CBS-TV, 1975. He covered the Vietnam War as a reporter-artist just prior to the Tet Offensive.[22]

Honors

He received the Kansas City Civil Liberties Achievement Award (1963), the International Solon of Cartoon Award (1975), the National Headliners Award (1977), the United Nations Population Institute Award for the best cartoon on women's rights (1975), the Wisconsin Civil Liberties Award (1979) and the

Lyndon Johnson.[23]

Bibliography

(with Lynne Deur)
  • Political Cartoonists, Lerner Publications, 1972
  • Run For The Oval Room, Alpha Press, 1975
  • The Sanders Book, Milwaukee Journal, 1977
(with Albert Robbins and Randall Rothenberg)
  • Getting Angry Six Days a Week, Beacon Press, 1979
(illustrations and cartoons)

References

  1. ^ Sanders, Bill. Getting Angry Six Times a Week, Beacon Press, 1979
  2. ^ "William Willard Sanders". The News-Press. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Willard Sanders Makes Florida All-Star Team",Springfield Herald, April 20, 1948, page 1
  4. ^ Official NCAA Football Guide, 1955, page 70
  5. ^ "Going for the Jugular", Newsweek, September 28, 1970, page 55
  6. The Bugle American
    , October 29-November 4, 1970, page 5
  7. ^ "The Saga of Sanders", by Mike Hughes,The Bugle American, October 29-November 4, 1970, page 5
  8. ^ "Cartoonist Suffers Fringe Harassment", by Rick Friedman, Editor & Publisher, December 1964, page 46
  9. ^ "Drawing Blood: Political Cartoonists" Holiday, August 1965, Vol. 38, No. 2, page 116
  10. ^ "Cartoonist Suffers Fringe Harassement", by Rick Friedman,Editor & Publisher, December 19, 1964, page 47
  11. ^ "Cartoonist Suffer Fringe Harassment, by Rick Friedman",Editor & Publisher, December 19, 1964, page 46
  12. ^ “When Extremists Attack the Press”, by Jim Fixx, Saturday Review, February 13, 1963, page 72
  13. ^ "Judge Dismisses Peace Disturbanc Charge on Early Morning Pealing",The Village Squire, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, volume 2, number 30, September 10, 1964, page 1
  14. ^ "Paper Not an Issue",The Milwaukee Journal, January 28, 1971,
  15. ^ "WITI Urges Journal, Maier to End Dispute",The Milwaukee Journal, June 5, 1970
  16. ^ "WITI Urges Journal, Maier to End Dispute",The Milwaukee Journal, June 16, 1970
  17. ^ "A Sharp Quill Retires", by Scott Kerr, Shepherd Express, September 19, 1991, page 1
  18. ^ "Cartoonist Put on Suspension",The Milwaukee Journal, February 25, 1970, page 1
  19. ^ Dreyfus, Lucy rip Coverage",The Milwaukee Journal, Madison Bureau, November 16, 1984
  20. ^ "Press Room Confidential",Inside Milwaukee Magazine, December 1982, page 13
  21. ^ "Going for the Jugular",Newsweek, September 28, 1970, page 55
  22. ^ Life in Vietnam Can Be Good, Death Horrible", by Bill Sanders,The Milwaukee Journal, November 30, 1967, Accent Section
  23. ^ "The Blunted Lance of Bill Sanders", This Month in Kansas City(magazine), March 1967, page 23
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