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Content Provider | Library of Congress - Photographs |
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Spatial Coverage | United States |
Description | Cartoon shows a fanatical figure labeled "Self-Righteous Book Burner" holding aloft a Statue of Liberty type torch which has been used to set piles of books on fire. The figure wears an "I Hate Ike" button and carries a volume entitled "Ignorance." The cartoon comments on the efforts during the McCarthy era to remove books by Communist and left- wing authors from governmental libraries and generally censor free inquiry. President Eisenhower deplored book burning and censorship at a speech at Dartmouth College on June 14, 1953. |
File Format | JPG / JPEG |
Language | English |
Part of Series | Cartoon Drawings |
Requires | HTML5 supported browser |
Access Restriction | Open |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Book burning--United States--1950-1960. |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | McCarthyism--1950-1960. |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Eisenhower, Dwight D.--(Dwight David),--1890-1969. |
Content Type | Image |
Resource Type | Photograph |