Tote dat barge! Lift dat Boycott! Ride dat bus!" / Herblock." – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Tote dat barge! Lift dat Boycott! Ride dat bus!" / Herblock.", preserved in this historic drawing. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Tote dat barge! Lift dat Boycott! Ride dat bus!" / Herblock."
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The caption borrows its rhythm from "Ol' Man River," the stevedore song in the 1927 musical *Show Boat*, and turns "Tote dat barge, lift dat bale" into a call to end the Montgomery bus boycott and ride the buses again. The boycott began in December 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat, and Black residents of the city stayed off the buses for more than a year. Herbert Block, the Washington Post cartoonist known as Herblock, drew often against segregation, and the layered ink, graphite and opaque white on this sheet show the care he put into his work.
| Medium | 1 drawing on layered paper : ink, graphite, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing ; 57.9 x 36.8 cm. (sheet) |
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| Notes | c1956. |
| Subjects | African Americans--Civil rights--1950-1960. Boycotts--Alabama--Montgomery--1950-1960. Segregation in transportation--Alabama--Montgomery--1950-1960. Race relations--Alabama--Montgomery--1950-1960. Bus stops--Alabama--Montgomery--1950-1960. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,304 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-202794 |
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