Bungleton Green
Here's my contribution to Black History month
The Chicago Defender is a Chicago-based online newspaper. The Defender was founded in 1905 by Robert S. Abbott for primarily African-American readers. Historically, it is considered the "most important" paper of what was then known as the colored or Negro press. Abbott's newspaper reported and campaigned against Jim Crow era violence and urged blacks in the American South to come north in what became the Great Migration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicago_Defender
Bungleton Green was a needle-nosed caricature of a man who had a lot of funny stuff happen to and around him, much like A. Mutt, Andy Gump, George Bungle and any number of other comics characters. The main difference was, both he and Leslie Rogers, the cartoonist who created him, were black. Which wouldn't be very remarkable today, but in 1920, when he first appeared, it relegated both to a ghetto-like corner of the American publishing industry, the newspapers that served a local urban black community.
http://www.toonopedia.com/bunglton.htm
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