12019-03-12T23:57:17+00:00Stanford University Pressaf84c3e11fe030c51c61bbd190fa82a3a1a1282415plainpublished2019-11-04T05:15:11+00:00Production Editor7a3dce28be212b1ba5b4a7a50f3d6a8d76b58c74On January 14, 1956, the New York Amsterdam News published an illustrated historical profile by cartoonist Melvin Tapley. Tapley's “Our People: Pages from History” profiles ran regularly in the Amsterdam News, and this one featured cartoonist and illustrator Bill Riley and Dr. Emily Charlton, the “first Negro woman in Brooklyn, N.Y., to become a licensed podiatrist!”