- Morrie Turner was born on December 11, 1923 in Oakland, California, USA. He was a writer, known for Who Do You Think Should Belong to the Club? (1977), Kid Power (1972) and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968). He was married to Letha Mae Harvey. He died on January 25, 2014 in Sacramento, California, USA.
- SpouseLetha Mae Harvey(April 6, 1946 - 1994) (her death, 1 child)
- He took a correspondence course in drawing, but had no formal training as an artist. He drew comic strips for military newspapers while serving in the Army Air Corps during WWII.
- In the 1950s and early '60s, he worked as a police-department clerk in Oakland, and moonlighted drawing cartoons for magazines such as Black World and Ebony. In 1965, he launched the comic strip "Wee Pals," which featured a multi-ethnic bunch of kids and made him one of the first mainstream black cartoonists.
- White, Filipino, Japanese, Chinese, black - it was a rainbow. I didn't know that wasn't the way it was other places. Oakland was that way before the war. We were all equal. Nobody had any money. [on the neighborhood he grew up in, from an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle]
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