Americans All
Workforce-inclusion poster: workers with different surnames (Nienciewiscz, Du Bois, Cohen, Lazarri, Hrdlicka, Santini, Schmidt, Williams, Kelly) service a tank, above a quotation from Franklin D. Roosevelt on non-discrimination in employment. The named ordinary workers are plain-folks figures, the signed presidential quotation works as a testimonial, and 'Americans All' is a broad unity phrase.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Manpower Commission
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Labor, Race and ethnicity, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
War Manpower Commission. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-352 (NAID 513802).
Text on the object
NIENCIEWISCZ DU BOIS COHEN LAZARRI HRDLICKA SANTINI SCHMIDT WILLIAMS KELLY AMERICANS ALL "...it is the duty of employers and labor organizers to provide for the full participation of all workers without discrimination because of race, creed, color, or national origin." [signature:] Franklin D. Roosevelt [imprint:] WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION • WASHINGTON, D. C. [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942-O-476311
