![]() It's shown in a earlier strip that he wears glasses underneath his bangs. Wellington (ethnicity unstated, dark hair covering eyes) A hip young boy who is mainly shown with Diz.She appears in the later strips in the series. Sally (ethnicity unstated, but deaf-mute) A respectful young girl with a very kind heart.Trinh ( Vietnamese) A kind-hearted little boy who is very good friends with Mikki.It's shown that he might have feelings for Sybil. He is very good friends with Nipper, Oliver, Diz, Randy and Trinh. Jerry ( Jewish) An upbeat, happy, loyal young man with a very big heart.He has a good relationship with Oliver, Nipper, and Jerry. George ( Asian-American of Chinese origin) A quiet young boy with a vivid imagination who often discusses Chinese parables.He is good friends with Randy and Nipper. Rocky ( Native American) A respectful kind young boy who is very proud of his racial background.Mikki (African-American about four years old) A young girl who has a very big imagination.He is often shown to be the pacifist of the group. Pablo ( Chicano/ Mexican-American) A happy carefree young boy who is very good friends with Randy and Jerry.He also has a one-sided friendship with Ralph. Randy ( African-American) The second in command of the Rainbow Club who is very good friends with Oliver.Charlotte - A white bespectacled girl who uses a wheelchair.He plays trumpet like his namesake Dizzy Gillespie and often narrates the "Funky Fables" strips. Diz - An African-American boy who's never without his sunglasses and beret.Oliver - A chubby, bookish white boy with glasses.She is a very nice and respectful young girl who has a very good relationship with Connie. Sybil - African-American girl who is also in the Girls' Lib organization.She's an outspoken member of the neighborhood "Girls' Lib" organization (a play on the Women's Liberation Movement). Connie - A athletic white girl who frequently clashes with Ralph over his misogyny and racism, despite that she herself expresses chauvanistic and misandrist views.Ralph - A white neighborhood bigot and ruffian.Turner based Nipper on himself as a child. Nipper - An African-American boy who always wears a blue or grey American Civil War kepi, and has a dog named General Lee. ![]() In its later years, the strip was distributed by Creators Syndicate. He also added a weekly section called "Soul Corner", which profiled notable African Americans from history. ![]() He included children of more and more ethnicities, as well as a child with a physical disability. After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the number of papers carrying the strip grew either to 60 or to more than 100 dailies (sources differ).Īs the comic strip's popularity grew, Turner added characters. When it debuted, the strip originally appeared in only five daily newspapers, as many papers refused to run a strip featuring black characters. Initially syndicated by Lew Little Enterprises, it was then carried by the Register and Tribune Syndicate, before moving to United Feature Syndicate in the 1970s. Turner integrated the strip, renaming it Wee Pals, and on February 15, 1965, it became the first American syndicated comic strip to have a cast of diverse ethnicity. Morris' first attempt, Dinky Fellas, featured an all-black cast, but found publication in only one newspaper, the Chicago Defender. When cartoonist Morrie Turner began questioning why there were no minorities in the comic strips, his mentor, Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. It was the first comic strip syndicated in the United States to have a cast of diverse ethnicity, dubbed the "Rainbow Gang". Wee Pals is an American syndicated comic strip about a diverse group of children, created and produced by Morrie Turner. American comic strip by Morrie Turner Wee PalsĬoncluded daily & Sunday strip in reruns
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