Political Cartoon: The anti-Chinese wall-- The American wall goes up as the Chinese original goes down / F. Gratz

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Political Cartoon: The anti-Chinese wall-- The American wall goes up as the Chinese original goes down / F. Gratz

03/29/1882

Political Cartoon

This political cartoon, published on March 29th, 1882, portrays laborers, among whom are Irishmen, an African American, a White Civil War veteran, Italian, Frenchman, and a Jewish man, building a wall against the Chinese.

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