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
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
- Date
- June 22, 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, 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, 5743243 (NAID 5743243).
Text on the object
FILIBUSTER JUDICIARY COMMITTEE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL SENATE Jim Berryman Washington Star
