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KKKs St. Patricks day

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Original – In this 1927 cartoon the Ku Klux Klan chases the Roman Catholic Church, personified by St. Patrick, from the shores of America. Among the "snakes" are various supposed negative attributes of the Church, including superstition, union of church and state, control of public schools, and intolerance

Reason

The image is of high technical quality, a crisp scan from a book that is in the public domain that goes up to 1,472 × 1,270 pixels. I feel the image expresses the mentality of 1920s Klan anti-Catholicism very well, with the Church as personified as St. Patrick being expulsed from the US by the Klansmen. The "snakes" - a reference to the legend of St. Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland - are labeled "control of schools" - an important part of early 20th century anti-Catholicism in the US was the Churches supposed attempt to control public education _ the K. of C. - Knights of Columbus, which the Klan and other anti-Catholics felt was a subversive organization - "control of the press", "union of church and state", "Rome in politics", "temporal power", "superstition". "anti-prohibition" - an issue that would come up in the 1928 election - and most ironically, "intolerance" - which makes me feel this would be an appropriate featured picture for April 1.

Articles in which this image appears

Saint Patrick's Day

FP category for this image

Category:20th-century cartoons

Creator

The original creator was Branford Clarke. I personally scanned and uploaded the image from White, Alma "Klansmen: Guardians of Liberty" Zarephath, NJ: 1926 p.21 Bellerophon5685

• Support as nominator --Bellerophon5685 (talk) 03:58, 1 February 2014 (UTC)