African American History Month: Southern Lynchings & Queen Cotton
WARNING: One of the below cartoons includes racist imagery.
We continue our African American History Month coverage, with a few images from Cartoons Magazine (above) and The Daily Worker (below).
Above, “This Judge’s Recall Favored” by John Campbell Cory, from the September 1912 edition of Cartoons Magazine. Beneath, “This is our State Right” by Fred Ellis, published in The Daily Worker, on January 18th, 1938 (and scanned from the book, Worker — 36 Years of Drawings).
Click on the below cartoons, to view the cartoons in greater detail.
Above, more by Fred Ellis, originally in The Daily Worker, 1946-47, via Worker — 36 Years of Drawings. Below, from the March 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine, “Queen Cotton’s Fright” by Frank Michael Spangler, concerning a Boll Weevil Bill, showing the kind of cartoons the Alabama newspaper Montgomerey Advertiser was proud to run.
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— Doug
