- Date:
- 1866
- Original Format:
- Artifact
- Item#:
- 1860.0412
"THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT!"
This is one of a number of highly racist posters issued as part of a smear campaign against Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial nominee John White Geary by supporters of the Democratic candidate Hiester Clymer. Indicative of Clymer's white-supremacy platform, the posters attack postwar Republican efforts to pass a constitutional amendment giving blacks equal rights, including the right to vote. Clymer lost the election to Geary.