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This item is a 11 by 14-inch color political cartoon published in Puck , captioned "For the Sunny South. An Airship with a Jim Crow Trailer," depicts an airplane with three well-dressed white passengers towing a "Jim Crow trailer," crowded with African American passengers which is held aloft by a blimp.
NASM.2023.0007
1913-02-26
Barbara Fahs Charles, Gift, 2022, NASM.2023.0007
0.01 Cubic feet (One 11 by 14 inch folder)
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This item is a 11 by 14-inch color political cartoon published in Puck , a New York-based political humor magazine, on February 26, 1913. The caricature, captioned "For the Sunny South. An Airship with a Jim Crow Trailer," depicts an airplane with three well-dressed white passengers towing a "Jim Crow trailer," crowded with African American passengers which is held aloft by a blimp. The caption was lampooning Jim Crow laws by satirizing the cramped conditions of Jim Crow railroad cars.
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"For the Sunny South. An Airship with a Jim Crow Trailer," Puck , Political Cartoon, NASM.2023.0007, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Aeronautics
African Americans -- Segregation
Political cartoons
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