Jericho, U.S.A. / Herblock. – Antique Print
(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: Jericho, U.S.A. / Herblock., preserved in this historic drawing. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Jericho, U.S.A. / Herblock.
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Herblock's drawing takes its title from Jericho, the biblical city whose walls fell after the Israelites marched around them, and applies that image to Montgomery, Alabama. Dated around 1965, the year of the Selma to Montgomery march, it presents segregation and barriers to voter registration as walls that civil rights demonstrators had to break down. Herbert Block, known as Herblock, was a longtime political cartoonist for the Washington Post, and his editorial cartoons often used symbolic imagery to comment on racial injustice. The mix of ink, graphite, and opaque white shows how carefully he built up his drawings.
| Medium | 1 drawing on layered paper : ink, graphite, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing ; 57.5 x 38.4 cm. (sheet) |
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| Notes | c1965. |
| Subjects | Selma to Montgomery Rights March--(1965 :--Selma, Ala.) African Americans--Civil rights--1960-1970. Race discrimination--Alabama--Montgomery--1960-1970. Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Montgomery--1960-1970. Voter registration--Alabama--Montgomery--1960-1970. City walls--1960-1970. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,300 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-202966 |
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