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5337905
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Title
Dixie Keeps his Distance
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45 x 39 cm
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Year
1948
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Original editorial cartoon on card in pencil, published in the Nashville Banner, 1948, shows a sweating, cursing president Truman (‘HST’) wearing spurs with the word FEPC (Fair Employment Practice Committee) trying to coax a rather stubborn Democratic donkey and saying; ‘Whoa now, nice dixie - (you hard-headed so-and-so # @*) good ol' boy (I'll break your blankey blank neck) nice dixie, good dixie, whoa dixie! (if I ever get my hands on you, I'll-)’ and behind Truman's back there is a whip labelled, ‘force bills’. In 1948 - election year - president Truman issued two Executive Orders (‘force bills’) banning segregation in the armed forces and guaranteeing fair employment practices in the civil service (FEPC). Those in the Democrat party who opposed desegregation joined forces in the States Rights Party (SRP), which backed Strom Thurmond as presidential candidate. Truman was understandably not pleased with the southern Democrats and the split Democrat vote nearly cost him the election. This and other cartoons were featured in the Fall 1990 issue of the American Political Items Collectors' (APIC) magazine, The ‘Keynoter’. Card size 45 x 39 cm (17.5 x 15 inch), image size 38 x 33 cm, caption in pencil in upper border and signed lower right corner. In excellent condition.