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Image of a cartoon by Thomas Nast depicting a costumed member of the Ku Klux Klan shaking hands with a man on whose jacket the words "White League" are written. A skull appears below their handshake, and two African Americans kneel and cover their heads below them. The words "Worse than slavery" surround the skull.
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Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902
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New Georgia Encyclopedia

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African American Men
  2. African American Women
  3. African Americans
  4. Freedmen
  5. Handshaking
  6. Ku Klux Klan (19 Th Cent.)
  7. Men
  8. Political Cartoons
  9. Skull
  10. Southern States
  11. United States
  12. White Supremacy Movements
  13. Women

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