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“I KEEP TELLING YOU, WE DON’T HAVE ANYTHING FOR YOU TO SEE”
When four members of the bipartisan United States Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs toured the South to investigate hunger and malnutrition among the nation’s poor, they found that state and local governments had refused to offer federal programs, including food stamps, to migrant workers on the grounds that they were not local constituents. Herblock used the metaphor of skeletons in the closet, showing a senator forcing his way past a Southern official to locate extreme poverty.
“I Keep Telling You, We Don’t Have Anything for You to See,” 1969. Published in the Washington Post, March 12, 1969. |