Raynors 2012-09
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CDV photograph, “The Reconstruction Policy of Congress, As Illustrated in California," shows the struggle African Americans faced in being taken seriously as voters. They are reduced to a caricature in this political cartoon, along with Chinese Americans and Native Americans. Shows the state's 1867 Republican gubernatorial candidate, George Gorham, bending under the weight of the very non-whites he sought suffrage for. As one might expect in the 1860s, Democrat Henry Haight won the election.
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