# Is Mickey Mouse...black? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 2, 2004, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-mickey-mouse-black/237959 "2004-04-02T21:37:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-mickey-mouse-black/237959/21 "2004-04-06T19:09:24Z")
Forgot the link: [http://www.farmington.k12.mo.us/school/ms/STAFF/Teachers/smith/pe.htm](http://www.farmington.k12.mo.us/school/ms/STAFF/Teachers/smith/pe.htm) ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-mickey-mouse-black/237959/22 "2004-04-07T12:04:49Z")
The article I linked to above (here’s the [link](http://www.monmsci.net/~kbaldwin/mickey.pdf) again, in case you missed it) has a graphic showing all of the different Mickeys in different decades. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-mickey-mouse-black/237959/23 "2004-04-07T13:21:17Z")
**Brother Cadfael** – Yeah, I read the Stephen Jay Gould article when it first came out. But the picture there doesn’t emphasize the fact that the “mask” was originally Mickey’s entire eyes, and most of the ones I linked to do – see especially the clips from **Plane Crazy** , which make this hard to miss. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-mickey-mouse-black/237959.md?page=1)