Racism In The United States

Scope and content: Fighting wage discrimination - with captions. Public domain reproduction of political cartoon, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Scope and content: This was copyrighted by Knafl & Brothers, Knoxville, Tenn. At the time it was no doubt intended as a humorous mockery of African-Americans; today it would certainly be viewed as a racist ins More

Demonstrations. Nazi picketing the White House. Keywords: demonstration; sign; Social and Humanitarian Movements(NPS History Collection Themes)

Demonstrations. Nazi picketing the White House. Keywords: demonstration; sign; structure; fence; Social and Humanitarian Movements(NPS History Collection Themes)

Demonstrations. Nazi picketing the White House. Keywords: demonstration; sign; fence; Social and Humanitarian Movements(NPS History Collection Themes)

Demonstrations. Nazi picketing the White House. Keywords: demonstration; sign; fence; structure; Social and Humanitarian Movements(NPS History Collection Themes)

Demonstrations. Nazi picketing the White House. Keywords: demonstration; sign; Social and Humanitarian Movements(NPS History Collection Themes)

Little Rock, 1959. Rally at state capitol, protesting the integration of Central High School. Protesters carry US flags and signs reading "Race Mixing is Communism" and "Stop the Race Mixing March of the Anti-Christ".

Little Rock, 1959. Rally at state capitol, protesting the integration of Central High School. Protesters carry US flags and signs reading "Race Mixing is Communism" and "Stop the Race Mixing March of the Anti-Christ".

* Postcard series number: 5742 1901-1902. Included occasional reprints from 1000 series.

US-American Anti-German and Anti-Italian Language Poster Public domain scan of a cartoon, military forces, war and politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mugshot taken at the Jackson Police department in Mississippi. Public domain image of a criminal, arrest mugshot, conviction, prisoner, crime, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Lynching of Roosevelt Townes and Robert McDaniels. April 1937.

Racial Integrity Act of 1924

Child "convict" punished. 1932.

Scope and content: Fighting wage discrimination - with captions. Public domain photograph of US government agency meeting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cover of "Le Petit Journal", 7 October, 1906. Depicting the race riots in Atlanta, Georgia. "The Lynchings in the United States: The Massacre of Negroes in Atlanta."

Cover of "Le Petit Journal", 7 October, 1906. Depicting the race riots in Atlanta, Georgia. "The Lynchings in the United States: The Massacre of Negroes in Atlanta."

Cover of the Communist propaganda pamphlet Race Hatred on Trial [1931]. Published by Workers Library Publishers, New York. From a specimen in the Tim Davenport collection, digitized by me (Tim Davenport) for W More

Coon Chicken Inn logo

Embossed postcard reads "This place is a PALM GARDEN" (pun on the "palm" tree). Bad puns were typical humor for the period. It shows the tip-seeking service people a traveller would encounter: a caddy, a porte More

Langsdorf "alligator border" postcard S-651, Greetings from the Sunny South - "Negroes scrambling for money"

A house is crushed and swept off its foundations by flooding from a breached levee in the Ninth Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana, due to a storm surge from Hurricane Katrina. The Ninth Ward has about a 90% Black population.

Birney, Montana. August 1941. "People who came to Saturday night dance around the bar." Bar has a sign that reads "POSITIVELY NO BEER SOLD TO INDIANS"

Signs over bar in Birney, Montana, 1941. Patriotic "God Bless America" banner, calendar with pin-up girl, display of cigarettes, and hand lettered signs reading "Positively no beer sold to Indians" and "We do n More

Cover of the first issue of Osawatomie, the underground (and clandestine) newspaper published by the Weather Underground. Français : Couverture du numéro 1 d'Osawatomie, le journal publié clandestinement par More

Chase & Bachelder's American Museum of Art Poster image is based on the 1872 painting, American Progress by John Gast

Chase & Bachelder's American Museum of Art Poster image is based on the 1872 painting, American Progress by John Gast

Photograph shows several Tuskegee airmen. Front row, left to right: unidentified airman; Jimmie D. Wheeler (with goggles); Emile G. Clifton (cloth cap) San Francisco, CA, Class 44-B. Standing left to right: Ro More

Caricature showing Uncle Sam lecturing four children labelled Philippines (who appears similar to Philippine leader Emilio Aguinaldo), Hawaii, Porto[sic] Rico and Cuba in front of children holding books labelle More

Caricature showing Uncle Sam lecturing four children labelled Philippines (who appears similar to Philippine leader Emilio Aguinaldo), Hawaii, Porto[sic] Rico and Cuba in front of children holding books labelle More

Caricature showing Uncle Sam lecturing four children labelled Philippines (who appears similar to Philippine leader Emilio Aguinaldo), Hawaii, Porto[sic] Rico and Cuba in front of children holding books labelle More

Caricature showing Uncle Sam lecturing four children labelled Philippines (who appears similar to Philippine leader Emilio Aguinaldo), Hawaii, Porto[sic] Rico and Cuba in front of children holding books labelle More

Caricature showing Uncle Sam lecturing four children labelled Philippines (who appears similar to Philippine leader Emilio Aguinaldo), Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Cuba in front of children holding books labelled wi More

American Progress - illustration extracted from Crofutt's Trans-Continental Tourist

Movie poster for The Battle at Elderbush Gulch Public domain photograph of a movie film poster advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Advertisement for Ivory soap in 1888, displaying a couple of native Americans and these verses. "We once were factious, fierce, and wild. To peaceful arts unreconciled; Our blankets smeared with grease and sta More

Karikatyr från 1850, återtryckt i Smithsonian Magazine 1996. English: Caricature from 1850, reprinted in Smithsonian Magazine in 1996. Irish immigrant in whiskey barrell and German immigrant in beer barrell r More

George Raymond Mug Shot George Raymond, Jr. was an eighteen-year-old CORE activist living in New Orleans, Louisiana when he was arrested for his participation in the Freedom Rides. Raymond, along with Pauline More

Creeks in Oklahoma, left to right, Lochar Harjo, unidentified man, John McGilvry, and Silas Jefferson (aka. Hotulkomiko).

Collection: Stewart Photograph Collection Call number: PI/1992.0006 System ID: 102447. Catalog link: 102447 Coon. Please see our profile page for information on ordering. Scanned as tiff in 2010/04/08 by MDAH. More

"In Self-Defense". 1876 editorial cartoon by A. B. Frost. Depicts a caricatured former Confederates in the U.S. South with a knife and smoking gun in his hands standing over the corpse of an African-American to More

"His Little Hawaiian Game Checkmated". w:Uncle Sam and w:Grover Cleveland are playing chess with pieces representing the U.S. Senators and Queen w:Liliʻuokalani. Caption: Uncle Sam: "Grover this game has been More

Ad for the National Negro Doll Company from a 1912 issue of the Nashville Globe

Atlanta Constitution clipping describing Klan re-establishment, Nov. 1915

Newspaper article (The Weekly Star, Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S., November 4, 1898) reprinting an editorial by Alexander Manly previously published in the Wilmington Daily Record on August 18, 1898, reflec More

Illinois State Journal

The Negro a Beast, by Charles Carroll. 1900. "The negro a beast, but created with articulate speech that he may be of service to his master – the White Man."

News and Observer, 15 Oct 1898.

Illinois State Register

The Times. 27 Aug 1908.

Illinois State Register

The Decatur Herald. Decatur, Illinois. Jul 6 1908.

Illinois State Journal

“This is a white man's government” (Harper’s Weekly, September 5, 1868; Library of Congress)

“The Union as It Was” (Harper’s Weekly, October 24, 1874; Library of Congress)

St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 15 Aug 1908.

Daily Illinois State Register

A photograph of the front page of the Oakland Tribune describing bomb threats against the first black homeowners in Piedmont, California

Illinois State Register. 10 Jul 1908

Português: Cartum racista novaiorquino ridiculariza o casamento entre Frederick Douglass e sua segunda esposa Helen Pitts, branca; na imagem vê-se Douglass comprando, numa farmácia, pílulas "purificadoras do s More

Sheet music cover to You ain't de only coon in town, composed by Albert H. Fitz. Cover illustration: drawing of well-dressed Black man smoking a cigar. Cover printed by J.E. Rosenthal, New York.

Illinois State Journal

Illinois State Journal

Illinois State Register

Illinois State Register

Daily Illinois State Register

Cover of "The Mascot" newspaper, New Orleans, 1889. Anti-immigration cartoon. "Results of Encouraging Emigration. Paupers, Vagabonds, Murders and other of the European and Asiatic Scum Refused Admission elsewhe More

1904 political cartoon by Bob Satterfield. Uncle Sam (wearing a policeman's helmet, uniform, and badge, and holding a billy-club) watches as the personification of Santo Domingo (a barefoot stereotypical "dark More

Chicago Tribune. 1 Nov 1898

Campaign flyer for Willis Smith for Senate in the 1950 US Senate race in North Carolina.

Scott Burton and William Donnegan, lynched. The Weekly Republican. Aug. 20, 1908.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Aug 15 1908

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Freedom Rider Winonah Myers Mugshot June 9, 1961 Public domain image of a criminal, arrest mugshot, conviction, prisoner, crime, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Maidu Headmen with Treaty Commissioners

A street scene showing destitute African Americans begging (a white man offers a "tract on slavery" rather than money), and others inhabiting a rundown "Colored Men's Home" where dancing, drinking, and fightin More

Cartoon by Thomas Nast. A Matter of Taste", published March 15, 1879 (seen at right), John Confucius expresses disapproval of Senator James G. Blaine for his support of the Chinese Exclusion Act. Blaine is sho More

Caption: Our good-natured country may allow this administration to give our market to England, sell our embassies to Anglomaniac dudes, and cause the reduction of wages to the European standard. But... Descrip More

'This is a White Man's Government!' (September 1868), 'Harper's Weekly' Public domain reproduction of political cartoon, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A broadside posted publicly in Portland, Maine shortly after the return to Portland, Maine, USA in 1827 of John Neal, eccentric and influential writer, critic, and activist. Scanned from a page in the 1972 boo More

Convict leasing, children. 1903

1910 sports cartoon by George Herriman. Shows people at cinema showing the Johnson Jefferies boxing prize fight. Outside a man is selling "transformation glasses" "they make black white and white black". Cap More

Cartoon "Mississippi at the St. Louis Fair", satirizing the state of Mississippi visiting the 1904 "Louisiana Purchase Exposition" World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. Clearly shows that Mississipi's reputatio More

Pages from the 1884 edition of Cram's New Family Atlas of the World that depicts in a very racist way what were then the "types of the races of men".

A racist attack on Democratic vice-presidential candidate Richard M. Johnson. The Kentucky Congressman's nomination, in May 1835, as Van Buren's running-mate for the 1836 election raised eyebrows even among pa More

Lili to Grover Title Liliuokalani Artist Frederick Victor Gillam, 1867 - 1920 Publication Judge Magazine, active 1881 - 1947 Sitter Liliuokalani, 2 Sep 1838 - 11 Nov 1917 Date 1894 Type Print Medium Chromolit More

Lili to Grover Public domain reproduction of political cartoon, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lili to Grover Public domain reproduction of political cartoon, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

HUB RANGES Have Heat on Five Sides of the Oven

"The Race Problem Again"

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

This painting shows "Manifest Destiny" (the belief that the United States should expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean). This popular scene of people moving west captured the view of Americans at the t More

1848 political caricature which savagely satirizes the fact that though the presidential nominee of the newly-formed Free Soil Party, Martin Van Buren, was not himself an abolitionist, he was receiving the supp More

Public domain photograph of vintage postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Joe James | Joe James after beaten by Springfield mob. Jul 6, 1908

The News & Observer. “Vile and Villainous.” 24 Aug 1898.