Why the nigger is not fit to vote
Cartoon by Thomas Nast, arguing that the reason Democrats objected to African-Americans having the vote, was that in the 1868 US presidential election African-Americans voted for the Republican candidates Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax.
- Date
- 1868
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- drawing
- Original size
- 548 × 760 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its author died more than 100 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
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