Editorial Cartoon
“Congress, 14th Amendment, 2nd Section”
E.W. Kemble’s editorial cartoon, published in 1902, shows Congress’s historical failure to enforce Section 2 of the 14th Amendment, which provides for remedial measures against states that disenfranchise Black voters.
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Cartoon shows Congress as a fat man asleep in a hammock. A broken blunderbuss, labeled "14th Amendment, 2nd Section," lies at his feet. A small black boy walks by holding a drum, but an elephant cautions, "Don't wake him up!" (Library of Congress.)