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title: '"Well, Missy! Heah we is!" (Puck, 1913)'
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description: A white woman with a purse marked 'votes for women' is met by three Black women carrying banners reading 'votes for colored ladies'.
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**Content note:** 1913 cartoon with racial caricature of Black women and dialect, drawn into the suffrage debate, shown as published. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[!["Well, Missy! Heah we is!", 1913 US cartoon: A white woman with a purse marked 'votes for women' is met by three Black women](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/well-missy-heah-we-is-puck-1913.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/well-missy-heah-we-is-puck-1913.jpg)

# "Well, Missy! Heah we is!" (Puck, 1913)

A white woman with a purse marked 'votes for women' is met by three Black women carrying banners reading 'votes for colored ladies', the caption in imitation Black dialect. The tell: it answers the demand for women's suffrage by setting the Black women's own demand beside it, and mocks the second in a racial caricature.

A wood-engraved cartoon in Puck, published in New York by Keppler & Schwarzmann on 13 March 1913 and signed 'L.M.G.'. A white woman with a purse marked 'votes for women' is met by three Black women carrying banners reading 'votes for colored ladies', with a caption in imitation Black dialect. It answers the demand for women's suffrage by setting the Black women's own demand beside it. The second demand is shown as a racial caricature, which is name-calling, and the setup works as a straw man.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

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

## Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights

[← La Tribuna illustrata, p. 264 (Rome, 28 April 1912): 'Gli avvenimenti della Tripolitania illustrati'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tribuna-illustrata-avvenimenti-tripolitania-1912/) ["The Temptation of Saint Samuel" (Puck, 1913) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/temptation-of-saint-samuel-puck-1913/)

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