SMITH "TO COLORED VOTERS" CIVIL RIGHTS AFRICAN AMERICAN 1928 CAMPAIGN BOOKLET.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, November 15, 2022 9:00:00 PM)
Item Description
4x9". 20 page booklet issued by the "Smith For President Colored League" outlines their reasoning to support Al Smith and oppose Herbert Hoover. Interesting political cartoon on back linking Hoover to the KKK and the Teapot Dome Scandal.
It begins by describing how the Democratic Party has long been an ally to African Americans, after which it undermines the premise that the Republican Party was a friend to the black community during the time of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and argued that since that time, the GOP had actively been attempting to distance itself from African Americans in an effort to win over bigoted white voters. It reference's Hoover's alleged "Lily White Campaign" in the South to appeal to white voters by stoking racial animosity, as well as highlighting the KKK's endorsement of Hoover and condemnation of Al Smith. On the last page is a photocopy of a Klan letter from Mississippi in which the KKK tells its members to support principle over party and vote Hoover, because Smith is "wet," a "Romanist,""believes in equality and intermarriage of blacks and whites," and because "Smith's record on the negro question is ten time's blacker than that of Hoover's." On the back cover, a cartoon titled "Political Bed Fellows, 1928" shows Klansmen flocking to the GOP Headquarters in Washington, DC to give their money and support to Hoover, as they make their way to KKK Headquarters across the street. Also pictured are Anti-Saloon League members walking with the Klansmen, and Sinclair Doheny-Oil (Teapot Dome Scandal) pumping money into the GOP's coffers, as Herbert Hoover and his political allies await the KKK members in the middle of the street. Overall the booklet has moderate aging w/some edge wear and a few scattered light stains. VF. An excellent display piece, as well as an interesting pamphlet which outlines the civil rights rhetoric of African American Democratic groups and their rationale for supporting Smith in 1928.
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