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- Postcard, "Alligator Bait, Florida," circa 1930 - Although degrading and offensive, this postcard with an image of an alligator eyeing African-American children as a meal could be purchased by whites vacationing in Florida in the 1930s. This supposedly "humorous" souvenir dehumanized blacks implying they were good only as alligator bait. Similar images only reinforced the prejudicial view among whites that African Americans were inferior, second class citizens.
- circa 1930
- Collections - Artifact
Postcard, "Alligator Bait, Florida," circa 1930
Although degrading and offensive, this postcard with an image of an alligator eyeing African-American children as a meal could be purchased by whites vacationing in Florida in the 1930s. This supposedly "humorous" souvenir dehumanized blacks implying they were good only as alligator bait. Similar images only reinforced the prejudicial view among whites that African Americans were inferior, second class citizens.