Name: The Salt River Gazette ---Extra Wednesday, Oct. 9, 1867.

Barcode: 58716

Image Number: 58716

Permanent URL: https://oshermaps.org/map/58716.0001

Brief Description: Broadside depicting racist images of African-Americans. The broadside explains the local Republican election losses in Philadelphia in 1867 represented by a coffin with the head of an African-American man and "The Great Negro Party born 1856--- died, Oct. 8, 1867".

Date/Date Range: Oct 9th, 1867

Language: English

Type: Broadsides

Dimensions: H 30.8 X W 20.8 cm

Historical Context: The time period of 1865-1867 was a turbulent time following the Civil War and an effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy. President Andrew Johnson in 1865 and 1866 passed strict "Black Codes" to control labor and behavior of freed slaves and other African-Americans.

LC Call Number: Z1 27.P3 1867

OCLC: 1419373138