Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. (24)ġ drawing on layered paper : ink, graphite, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing 53.5 x 36.5 cm (sheet) Block Collection (Library of Congress).Įxhibited in: 'Herblock's History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium' at the Library of Congress, 2000-2001. renewed by Herblock.įorms part of: Herbert L.

Published in the Washington Post, April 24, 1949.Ĭopyright 1949 by The Washington Post Co. The motives of some self-serving or vindictive accusers were summed up by Herb Block in a phrase: 'If you can't crush the commies, you can nail a neighbor.' Some individuals compiled and circulated their own blacklists, which were accepted by frightened employers and casting directors who feared being blacklisted themselves if they sought facts and fair play. Editorial cartoon showing members of 'State and local 'Anti-subversive' Committees in the U.S.' ransacking a school teacher's classroom, terrorizing her with questions about reading books, preparing to cut the Soviet Union out of a map of Europe, digging through the trash and finding something suspicious in a math problem, and noting, with displeasure, a portrait of Thomas Jefferson hanging on the wall.Ĭaption label from exhibit 'Herblock's History Fire!': During the postwar anti-communist campaign hundreds of elementary and high school teachers were investigated and lost their jobs, sometimes as a result of being named by proliferating 'anti-subversive' groups and individuals.

Herbert block political cartoons