Clint C. Wilson, Sr.

Clint Cornelius Wilson, Sr. (1914 – September 18, 2005) was an African-American editorial cartoonist.

Wilson was born in a log cabin in rural Texas, one of 16 children of a sharecropper.

Wilson worked as a sports cartoonist for the San Antonio Register for free beginning in 1940. In 1946 he moved to Los Angeles. He began working for the Los Angeles Sentinel in 1956, initially as a sports cartoonist. He became the paper's editorial cartoonist and worked in that position until his 2002 retirement. In 1990, he was inducted into the Black Press Hall of Fame.

His son Clint Cornelius Wilson, II became a journalist and educator and was chair of Howard University's journalism department.

External links

• Mercury News - "Clint C. Wilson Sr., longtime LA Sentinel cartoonist, dies at 90" (registration required)
• KLTV - "Longtime LA Sentinel cartoonist, dies at 90"

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Name	Wilson, Clint C., Sr.
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Date of birth	1914
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Date of death	September 18, 2005
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