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
COinS
“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.