Prejudice Gallery

Cartoon about literacy tests in the South, 1870s

"The blakman orter be eddikated afore he kin vote with us wites" - cartoon about literacy tests, 1870s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Thomas Nast cartoon

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KKK murderers visit a black familys cabin, 1800s

Ku Klux Klansmen wrapped in sheets on a murderous raid in a black family's cabin, late 1800s.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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Blacks crushed by prejudice and violence after emancipation

Immigrant, a southerner, and a businessman combine to declare the US to be "a white man's government," 1868.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Thomas Nast cartoon

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