The Advocate cartoon
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Title
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The Advocate cartoon
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Creator
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Adams, John H.
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Date
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1910-10-13
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Description
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African American artist John Henry Adams’ cartoon depicts a white man penning in black men with boards that read “state rights,” “mob,” “Jim Crow Law,” “Disenfranchisement,” and others. He wrote, “A votelessman [sic] is a slave and in no other way is slavery possible.”
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Despite the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, African Americans, particularly those in southern states, remained disenfranchised by the Jim Crow segregation system.
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