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title: The Place is full of Simon Legrees!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-the-place-is-full-of-simon-legrees-1957/
description: A figure in a bonnet labelled Senate flees across breaking ice carrying a bundle labelled Civil Rights Bill, pursued by a hunter with a shotgun and a dog
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** A cartoon of the Senate as a fugitive crossing ice with a Civil Rights Bill, chased by armed men with dogs labelled Filibuster and Judiciary Committee; the title refers to the slave-driver Simon Legree of Uncle Tom's Cabin. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![The Place is full of Simon Legrees!, 1957 US cartoon: A figure in a bonnet labelled Senate flees across breaking ice carrying](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-the-place-is-full-of-simon-legrees-1957.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-the-place-is-full-of-simon-legrees-1957.jpg)

# The Place is full of Simon Legrees!

A figure in a bonnet labelled Senate flees across breaking ice carrying a bundle labelled Civil Rights Bill, pursued by a hunter with a shotgun and a dog labelled Filibuster and a second hunter with a dog labelled Judiciary Committee. The title likens the pursuers to Simon Legree, the slave-driving villain of Uncle Tom's Cabin; the technique is name-calling by literary label.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
FILIBUSTER
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
CIVIL RIGHTS BILL
SENATE
Jim Berryman Washington Star
```

[← No jury trial for the likes of you](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-no-jury-trial-for-the-likes-of-you-1957/) [Pishraft-e Iran wall news poster, No. 41: Eisenhower Doctrine, locomotives (Farsi, Tehran) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pishraft-e-iran-wall-news-poster-41-eisenhower-doctrine-farsi-tehran-1957/)

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