The Leader of the Mob: "Lynch Her! Lynch Her!" [editorial cartoon by Oscar Cesare]

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Title

The Leader of the Mob: "Lynch Her! Lynch Her!" [editorial cartoon by Oscar Cesare]

Description

Editorial cartoon by Oscar Cesare originally published in the New York Sun. Republished here in Cartoons Magazine, vol. 3, no. 1 (January 1913), p. 15.

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.

A figure of Blind Justice stands alone as Governor Blease of South Carolina leads an angry mob to attack her. The mob carries pitchforks, sticks, and stones. Blease holds a rope as he looks back to urge them on.
Caption: "The Leader of the Mob: 'Lynch Her! Lynch Her!'"

Creator

Cesare, Oscar Edward

Source

Cartoons Magazine, vol. 3, no. 1 (January 1913), p. 15. 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).

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Citation

Cesare, Oscar Edward, “The Leader of the Mob: "Lynch Her! Lynch Her!" [editorial cartoon by Oscar Cesare],” Social Welfare History Image Portal, accessed October 8, 2024, https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/392.