Civil Rights! Miscegenation Allowed by Congress, Despite the Veto of the President

This political broadside uses sequential illustration and speech balloons—visual conventions emerging in 19th-century print culture—to satirize the Civil Rights Act of 1866. An unidentified artist depicts Black and white figures in a wedding scene. The piece employs the narrative structure of early comics: distinct panels, dialogue balloons, and sequential action advancing a political argument. It opposes Congressional passage of civil rights legislation. The work exemplifies how graphic narrative techniques, soon to dominate newspaper comics, first appeared in political ephemera and editorial cartoons during the Reconstruction era.