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Sam Milai

Ahmed Samuel Milai (March 23, 1908 – April 30, 1970), better known as Sam Milai, was an African American editorial and comic strip cartoonist who drew for the Pittsburgh Courier. 1971, Milai illustrated Your History (later known as Facts About The Negro), written by Joel Augustus Rogers. Patterned after the look of Robert Ripleys popular Believe It or Not cartoons, multiple vignettes in each cartoon episode recounted short items about African Americans from Rogers' research.

Also recorded as Ahmed Samuel Milai

Sam Milai

Birth Name
Ahmed Samuel Milai
Born
23 March 1908
Died
30 April 1970
Nationality
American
Occupation
cartoonist

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Ahmed Samuel Milai (March 23, 1908 – April 30, 1970), better known as Sam Milai, was an African American editorial and comic strip cartoonist who drew for the Pittsburgh Courier. 1971, Milai illustrated Your History (later known as Facts About The Negro), written by Joel Augustus Rogers. Patterned after the look of Robert Ripleys popular Believe It or Not cartoons, multiple vignettes in each cartoon episode recounted short items about African Americans from Rogers' research.

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The Wikipedia record describes Sam Milai as a cartoonist. Sam Milai was born in 1908. Death followed in 1970.

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