Pals [Coleman Blease and Lynch Law. Editorial cartoon by William Kemp Starrett]

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Title

Pals [Coleman Blease and Lynch Law. Editorial cartoon by William Kemp Starrett]

Description

Editorial cartoon by William Kemp Starrett originally published in The Knickerbocker Press. Republished here in Cartoons Magazine, vol. 3, no. 1 (January 1913), p. 14.

Coleman Livingston Blease was governor of South Carolina from 1911 - 1915. He was notorious for being pro-lynching and against education for African Americans. Blease was a protégé of white supremacist Benjamin Ryan Tillman. 

Governor Blease walks arm in arm with a hooded figure (KKK member) with a rope and stick  labelled "Lynch Law."

Creator

Starrett, William Kemp

Source

Cartoons Magazine, vol. 3, no. 1 (January 1913), p. 14. Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries

Date

1913 January

Contributor

Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries

Rights

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Notes

Learn more: 
Lynching, Social Welfare History Image Portal 
Jim Crow Laws and Racial Segregation, Social Welfare History Project 

Editorial cartoons, Social Welfare History Image Portal 

Stanley-Becker, I. (2019) Who’s behind the law making immigration a crime? This ‘unrepentant white supremacist.' The Washington Post (June 27, 2019).

Citation

Starrett, William Kemp, “Pals [Coleman Blease and Lynch Law. Editorial cartoon by William Kemp Starrett],” Social Welfare History Image Portal, accessed November 5, 2024, https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/393.