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To the Voters of Hamilton County! Which Do you Want? Chattanooga, Tennessee: Allied Printing Trades Council, n.d. [probably 1954]. Poster. 9.5 x 12.5 in. (240 x 315 mm). A patronizing political poster aimed at African American voters in Hamilton County, Tennessee. A black family is pictured with what appears to be a 1948 Oldsmobile Futuramic convertible with the caption “Plenty with Democrats” contrasted with an elderly black man wearing shabby clothes next to a cart and the caption “Nothing with Republicans.” The poster is likely for the 1948 election - a Tuesday, November 2 that year - in which Truman sought reelection after ascending to the presidency upon FDR’s death in 1945. The phrase “Remember the Republicans in 1932” is likely intended to remind voters of the Great Depression and the unpopular Herbert Hoover with the image of the destitute man conjuring memories of Hoovervilles. The reference to 1932, when Roosevelt first took office, would reinforce the connection between Truman and the celebrated Roosevelt. Condition: Light creasing to bottom edge.