- A political cartoon depicting Irish Immigrants as "untouchables." As house
servents and labor workers, the Irish were assigned jobs often associated with African Americans.
Hence, derogratory terms and other nativists efforts quickly became a staple of urban society
in New York City.
("The Most Recently Discovered Wild Beast", Harper's Weekly)- (Nativist Cartoon Source)
- A political cartoon, first released in 1915, depiciting the anti-irish sentiment aimed at making a
correlation between the features of African Americans and those of Irish Americans. The caption,
as shown below, proposes that African Americans have always had a "connection" to Ireland and
where thus interrelated.
("Scientific Racism", Harper's Weekly)- ( Nativist Cartoon Source)
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