Roadblock...Or Repair Work Ahead?
A wooden barricade on a road, labelled '2 1/2-Year Suspension Order' with a lantern in front of it, stands below a sign reading 'To Integration in Little Rock'. The cartoon asks, through its title, whether the order is a block or a pause for repair.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- June 21, 1958
- 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
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Race and ethnicity, Elections and party politics
- Event
- Little Rock Integration Crisis
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives, 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, 5743262 (NAID 5743262).
Text on the object
To INTEGRATION IN LITTLE ROCK 2 1/2 -YEAR SUSPENSION ORDER JIM BERRYMAN WASHINGTON STAR
