Location
UNLV Libraries Extended Study Room
Start Date
6-12-2012 10:15 AM
End Date
6-12-2012 11:00 AM
Description
In the New York magazine Harper’s Weekly on December 1, 1876, “The Ignorant Vote – Honors Are Easy” cartoon is showing the difference that the African American Republican vote and Irish Catholic Democratic vote played in the 1876 election between Rutherford B. Hayes, a republican, and Samuel J. Tilden, a democrat. There was a dispute on who the actual election winner was because the votes were so close.
Disciplines
Cultural History | History | Political History | Politics and Social Change
Language
English
“The Ignorant Vote—Honors Are Easy”
UNLV Libraries Extended Study Room
In the New York magazine Harper’s Weekly on December 1, 1876, “The Ignorant Vote – Honors Are Easy” cartoon is showing the difference that the African American Republican vote and Irish Catholic Democratic vote played in the 1876 election between Rutherford B. Hayes, a republican, and Samuel J. Tilden, a democrat. There was a dispute on who the actual election winner was because the votes were so close.
