Image: Elmer A. Benson, 1938

Description: The Elmer Benson campaign responded to the dissemination of Are They Communists or Catspaws, an antisemitic pamphlet written by Ray P. Chase, with this advertisement, published in The American Jewish World, the weekly Jewish community newspaper, the week before the election for governor. The ad accuses the Stassen campaign and its supporters of red-baiting and Jew-baiting, and implies their association with the Silver Shirts, a national pro-Nazi group with a following in Minnesota.
Title: Elmer A. Benson, 1938
Credit: https://acampusdivided.umn.edu/text/benson-ad-in-american-jewish-world/, taken from the American Jewish World, November 4, 1938, p. 24
Author: Abe Altrowitz and George W. Kelley, Working Newspapermen's Volunteer Committee for the Reelection of Governor Benson
Permission: Public domain; bottom of page states "POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT–Prepared and inserted by Working Newspapermen's Voluneer Committee for the Re-election of Governor Benson for which the regular rates have been paid." No copyright notice specific to the advertisement is found on the page.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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