"Once more unto the bench, dear friends --" [graphic].
Block, Herbert, 1909-2001, artist.
still image
Editorial cartoons American 1960-1970. gmgpc
Drawings American 1960-1970. gmgpc
1/21/1966.
eng
Editorial cartoon shows a disheveled Senator Everett M. Dirksen, dressed like a tramp with a pan on his head and carrying a garbage can for a shield and a wooden sword, leading two brutish men carrying clubs and a brick in an assault on the United States Supreme Court. The men are labeled "Anti-Court Prayer Decision" and "Anti-One-Man, One-Vote Ruling".
Caption label from exhibit "Herblock Looks at 1966": Referring to Shakespeare's The Life of King Henry the Fifth, Herblock caricatured Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen as a rag-tag commander attacking the Supreme Court. On January 20, 1966, Dirksen announced that his new organization, the Committee for the Government of the People, sought a constitutional amendment to circumvent the Supreme Court's "one man, one vote" ("one person, one vote") ruling. In the interest of protecting newly enfranchised African American voters, as well as growing urban areas, the Supreme Court had ruled that states must apportion their legislatures based on population. Dirksen's efforts failed.
Title from item.
Signed "Herblock" on lower right.
Inscribed in pencil on upper left corner: 1/21/66.
Published in the Washington Post, January 21, 1966.
© 1966 Herblock.
Forms part of: Herbert L. Block collection (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: "Herblock Looks at 1966" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., March - September 2016.
Dirksen, Everett McKinley.
United States. Supreme Court.
Apportionment--United States--1960-1970.
Political representation--United States--1960-1970.
Prayer--United States--1960-1970.
Tramps--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970.
Hoodlums--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970.
Legislators--United States--1960-1970.
Supreme Court decisions--United States--1960-1970.
Herbert L. Block collection (Library of Congress)
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