Eighteen, hands-on, historical documents, including Thomas Nast cartoons and reproductions of NAACP pamphlets, bring this struggle to life for your class and reflect the strong emotions that accompanied the fight for black suffrage. Vivid documents reflect historical events and changes in society concerning this troubling issue. Historian: Christine Scriabine, adapted by Muriel L. Dubois. The contents of this Jackdaw feature:

Broadsheets

• The Reconstruction Period
• Losing the Vote
• The Fight for Suffrage
• “Give us the Ballot...”

Historical Documents

• “White Man’s Government” Nast cartoon, 1868.
• Two Thomas Nast cartoons — Harper’s Weekly, 1868.
• “It is Only a Truce ...” cartoon by Thomas Nast, 1872.
• “The First Colored Senator ... “ Currier & Ives, 1872.
• Two cartoons by R.N. Brooke in Harper’s Weekly.
• “The Political Pinkertons” cartoon, Judge, 1892.
• “Negro Rule” cartoon, 1900.
• “Opinion of W.E.B. Du Bois,” Crisis, 1920.
• “Nixon vs. Herndon,” Supreme Court Reports 536, 1926.
• “Why the Poll Tax Must be Repealed,” NAACP, 1944.
• LeFloret, Thurgood Marshall, R.E. Hannegan, letters, 1946.
• Committee For Alabama, letter, 1946.
• “Hands Off Democracy,” handbill, NAACP, c. 1949.
• “M is for Mississippi and Murder,” pamphlet, NAACP, 1955.
• “Hands that Picked Cotton ...” poster, c. 1965.
• “100% Registered to Vote,” sticker, SCLC, 1990.
• Lowery, King and Young on Voter’s Card, SCLC, 1990.
• “The Fifteenth Amendment” poster.

Reproducible Student Activities