“Plenty of Jobs We Never Get"

“Plenty of Jobs We Never Get"

From ExplorePAHistory: "In the 1920s, the Republican party still enjoyed an iron lock on the black voters of Philadelphia. This 1926 editorial cartoon published in the Philadelphia Tribune, the city’s oldest black owned newspaper, reflects black reformers fury at the party’s manipulation of the black vote. Set during the 'Season of False Faces and False Promises,' the cartoonist presented the Republican political boss as clown holding black puppets in one hand, while he reaches with his other hand into a barrel of jobs."

WCU, HIS 601/HON 452 Great Migration and Digital Storytelling, Fall 2014

October, 1926

Jeremy Tonnessen, Jason Miller

Used by permission of the Philadelphia Tribune Company, Inc. All rights reserved. The Philadelphia Tribune, with 130 years of continuous publication, is the oldest newspaper in the United States serving the African-American community.

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