Yes this gem of white supremacy comes to mind. digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/62a9d0...
One of hundreds of thousands of free digital items from The New York Public Library.
They have tried to either repeal it or reinterpret as narrowly as possible since the thing was ratified, haven't they?
Lots of great cartoons of this exceptionally small & grotesque little man here for all my teacher friends: www.parkspresidentsandparks.com/blog-page/20...
Andrew Johnson may have narrowly escaped impeachment, but he inspired a wide variety of critical political cartoons.
Johnson eventually slinked off in disgrace as a national joke. Looking forward to a repeat of that clownish spectacle next month.
Crucially, both Trump & Johnson depicted themselves as martyrsâ"Who has suffered more for you and for this Union than Andrew Johnson?"âfor white conservative America amid waves of escalating white supremacist violence that they themselves had helped incite.
From the deluded rambling & slurred words to the obsession with crowd sizes, the Trump campaign is easily the most cartoonish & grotesque since Johnson's "Swing around the Circle" in 1866.
Stoking racist fears of Black migrants to Ohio, 1870 edition This cartoon warned "you poor, ragged Irish and Buckeye fellers" that Black men would come north and take their jobs. It was published in an Ohio newspaper 3 months after the 15th Amendment was ratified.
Trump is trying to incite a pogrom. Mere weeks before the election, he has about a 50:50 chance to get back to the White House. As president, he could then use the racist frenzy he and Vance caused as justification for mobilizing the federal government to âcleanseâ the nation.
I'm excited to have this article examining the role that faux-abolitionists played in undermining liberation finally in print. tinyurl.com/e3yfmh47
Thank you, that's very kind! I hope you find it interesting!