Title
President Andrew Johnson dressed as a king
Caption
The massacre at New Orleans' Cartoon shows President Andrew Johnson "as a king, crowned and in velvet and ermine. His alleged royalist ambition had been the theme of much Radical rhetoric." Nast is attacking Johnson because he and others blamed Johnson for causing the July 1866 race riot that occurred in New Orleans when police shot and killed many African American delegates at a Radical Republicans convention.
Date
1867
Credit line
Photo12/Ann Ronan Picture Library
Reference
ARP18A15_244
License type
Rights managed
Available size
60,0Mb (3,2Mb) / 19,5in x 11,9in / 5860 x 3579 (300dpi)