"Jim Young, the Negro Politician, at head of the Committee on Education at the Blind Institution for White Children at Raleigh" Raleigh News and Observer, August 1898

"Jim Young, the Negro Politician, at head of the Committee on Education at the Blind Institution for White Children at Raleigh" Raleigh News and Observer, August 1898

The political cartoon depicts a black politician overseeing a group of blind white women. The cartoon was intended to encouraging white supremacy by showing the dangers of black politicians. The cartoon highlights the use of white female protection from black men. This cartoon appeared three months before the Wilmington race riots.

Appears in: Andrea Meryl Kirshenbaum, “The Vampire That Hovers Over North Carolina": Gender, White Supremacy, and the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898,” Southern Cultures 4, no. 3 (1998): 16.

1898-08-18

Vanek, Elizabeth

Still Image

Raleigh, North Carolina

Illustration