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Conceived in Liberty and Dedicated to the Proposition That All Men are Created Equal. . . .
Quoting Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Herblock depicted African Americans and whites standing together before the Lincoln Memorial in this cartoon published on the eve of the March on Washington in 1963. At the rally, standing before a crowd of 250,000 people, Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his famous “I have a dream” speech. Herblock supported the demands for economic equality and an end to segregation and discrimination. He also recognized how frustration had grown in the century since Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation because civil rights legislation had not passed.
Conceived in Liberty and Dedicated to the Proposition That All Men are Created Equal. . . , 1963. Published in the Washington Post, August 27, 1963. |