- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Ku Klux Klan Cartoon
- Creator:
- Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902
- Contributor to Resource:
- Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902
- Publisher:
- Harper's Weekly
- Date of Original:
- 1866/1868
- Subject:
- White supremacy movements--Southern States
Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.)
Skull
Men--Southern States
African American men--Southern States
African American women--Southern States
Handshaking--Southern States
Freedmen--United States
Political cartoons - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- illustrations (layout features)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Most Ku Klux Klan action was designed to intimidate Black voters and white supporters of the Republican Party. Founded in Tennessee in 1866, the Klan was particularly active in Georgia from 1868 to the early 1870s.
Image of a cartoon by Thomas Nast depicting a costumed member of the Ku Klux Klan shaking hands with a man on whose jacket the words "White League" are written. A skull appears below their handshake, and two African Americans kneel and cover their heads below them. The words "Worse than slavery" surround the skull. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ku-klux-klan-in-the-reconstruction-era/m-1265/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Harper's Weekly
From Harper's Weekly - Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ku-klux-klan-reconstruction-era
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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