"This can't be happening to me" [graphic].
By: Block, Herbert [artist.].
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Visual materialPublisher: 7/26/1960Description: 1 drawing.Subject(s): Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) | Political platforms Republican elephant (Symbolic character) Political conventions Civil rightsGenre/Form: Drawings -- American. | Editorial cartoons -- American.
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Block, Herbert, 1909-2001. Herbert L. Block collection (Library of Congress)Subject: Editorial cartoon showing an elephant, symbol of the Republican Party, dressed up in a top hat and tails walking down a street filled with people. He suddenly looks over his shoulder to discover that both his coat and his pants have ripped and his underwear is showing. The label, "Civil Rights split," goes over the rip. Aghast, the elephant says, "This can't be happening to me." The Republican Platform Committee rejected the wishes of Vice President Nixon and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller to include two key points in the Civil Rights plank: 1) a pledge to end discrimination in private and government employment; and 2) to endorse the objectives of the sit-in demonstrations taking place throughout the country. Many feared a floor flight at the Convention over the civil rights plank was inevitable.
Editorial cartoon showing an elephant, symbol of the Republican Party, dressed up in a top hat and tails walking down a street filled with people. He suddenly looks over his shoulder to discover that both his coat and his pants have ripped and his underwear is showing. The label, "Civil Rights split," goes over the rip. Aghast, the elephant says, "This can't be happening to me." The Republican Platform Committee rejected the wishes of Vice President Nixon and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller to include two key points in the Civil Rights plank: 1) a pledge to end discrimination in private and government employment; and 2) to endorse the objectives of the sit-in demonstrations taking place throughout the country. Many feared a floor flight at the Convention over the civil rights plank was inevitable.
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Forms part of: Herbert L. Block collection (Library of Congress).
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