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"Irishmen Attention!," Campaign Poster, 1887
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This campaign poster captures some of the complexities of nineteenth-century ethnic politics in Chicago. The fusing of identities as "white" and "American" established a framework for difficult relations between Irish and African American Chicagoans. But Irish Catholic hostility toward "Orangemen" could be an even sharper political wedge.
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