"Once more unto the bench, dear friends --"
Block, Herbert,
1909-2001
artist
still image
graphic
Editorial cartoons-American-1960-1970.
Drawings-American-1960-1970.
dcu
1966
monographic
1/21/1966
eng
1 drawing : India ink, graphite, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing ; sheet 57.8 x 38.1 cm.
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".
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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. DLC
Inscribed in pencil on upper left corner: 1/21/66. DLC
Published in the Washington Post, January 21, 1966. DLC
© 1966 Herblock. DLC
Exhibited: "Herblock Looks at 1966" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., March - September 2016.
Forms part of: Herbert L. Block collection (Library of Congress).
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
BLOCK, no. 6472
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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Herbert L. Block collection (Library of Congress)
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Block, Herbert, 1909-2001.
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