Content note: An editorial cartoon showing a robed judge labelled House with a gavel and a hanging noose before a stooped figure labelled The South, as published. This object is shown as it was published. Why
No jury trial for the likes of you
A judge in a robe lettered "HOUSE" raises a gavel over a stooped, white-haired man lettered "THE SOUTH" who holds his hat behind his back. A noose hangs from the bench and a sign marked "OUT OF BUSINESS" is pinned to the jury box. The tell is fear-appeal: the noose and the empty jury box warn of what the cartoon claims would follow if jury trials were removed.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- June 16, 1957
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Washington Evening Star (cartoonist Jim Berryman)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Race and ethnicity, Elections and party politics
- Event
- Civil Rights Act of 1957
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Records of the U.S. Senate, Jim Berryman Political Cartoons (NAID 5730852), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Jim Berryman, Washington Evening Star. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Senate, 5743242 (NAID 5743242).
Text on the object
HOUSE THE SOUTH OUT OF BUSINESS JIM BERRYMAN WASHINGTON STAR....
