Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:KKK - St Patricks Dau.jpg
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- Reason
- The image is of high technical quality, a crisp scan from a book that is in the public domain that goes up to 1,472 × 1,270 pixels. I feel the image expresses the mentality of 1920s Klan anti-Catholicism very well, with the Church as personified as St. Patrick being expulsed from the US by the Klansmen. The "snakes" - a reference to the legend of St. Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland - are labeled "control of schools" - an important part of early 20th century anti-Catholicism in the US was the Churches supposed attempt to control public education _ the K. of C. - Knights of Columbus, which the Klan and other anti-Catholics felt was a subversive organization - "control of the press", "union of church and state", "Rome in politics", "temporal power", "superstition". "anti-prohibition" - an issue that would come up in the 1928 election - and most ironically, "intolerance" - which makes me feel this would be an appropriate featured picture for April 1.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Saint Patrick's Day
- FP category for this image
- Category:20th-century cartoons
- Creator
- The original creator was Branford Clarke. I personally scanned and uploaded the image from White, Alma "Klansmen: Guardians of Liberty" Zarephath, NJ: 1926 p.21 Bellerophon5685
- Support as nominator --Bellerophon5685 (talk) 03:58, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
