A FANTASTIC PIECE OF BLACK MEMORABILIA THAT IS BEING OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. 1932 MICKEY MOUSE ANNUAL
Book Includes Racial Epithets. THIS 1932 MICKEY MOUSE 200 PAGE ANNUAL WAS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY DEAN AND SONS WITH THE CONSENT OF WALTER E. DISNEY. ONLY A FEW COPIES GOT INTO CIRCULATION. IT IS A RARE AND RACIST EXAMPLE OF EARLY PIE-EYED MICKEY MOUSE IN FULL FORM. THE WORD “NIGGER” IS USED SEVERAL TIMES. THE OPENING POEM ENTITLED ‘A BLACK OUTLOOK’, FEATURES MICKEY AND MINNIE PITTED AGAINST “FIERCE NIGGERS”. THE VERY EARLY MICKEY MOUSE STRIPS CIRCA 1930-1933 LAMPOONED AND EXAGGERATED THE FEATURES OF THE BLACK PERSON. THE BOOK WAS CENSORED FROM BEING PUBLISHED IN THE NEWSPAPERS DUE TO ITS INAPPROPRIATE CONTENT. THE WORD “NIGGER” IS USED SEVERAL TIMES IN THE TEXT. THIS BOOK WAS AUTHORIZED BY WALTER E. DISNEY. IT ALSO INCLUDES SNOW-WHITE. THIS ITEM WILL BE HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER BY COLLECTORS OF VINTAGE DISNEYANA AND BLACK HISTORIANS.
