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

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

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."

Starrett, William Kemp

1913 January

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

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