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title: 'Chitra Katha photo poster No. 37: Hoffman-Boston school students, Virginia (Bengali photo poster distributed in Dacca)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chitra-katha-37-hoffman-boston-school-students-bengali-dacca-1958/
description: A Bengali photo sheet on the Hoffman-Boston junior-senior high school in Arlington County, Virginia, which the captions call a Negro high school
section: Collection
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# Chitra Katha photo poster No. 37: Hoffman-Boston school students, Virginia (Bengali photo poster distributed in Dacca)

A Bengali photo sheet on the Hoffman-Boston junior-senior high school in Arlington County, Virginia, which the captions call a Negro high school of the southern United States. Photographs show students lined up, a band, basketball, a physics class and a speech class. The text says its standard equals other schools, a third of graduates enter college and five students won 14,000 dollars in scholarships in 1957. The tell is card-stacking: school successes are chosen as proof of equal treatment.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (Bengali) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
চিত্র কথা

আমেরিকান নিগ্রোদের ছাত্র জীবন

Issue No. 37 Published weekly for U.S.I.S, Dacca by Jatiya Mudran
Editor's Note:- Please Post in Public Place, such as School Room, Bulletin Board Etc.
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Chitra Katha (Picture Story)

Student life of American Negroes

[English imprint lines as printed.]
```

Masthead, headline and imprint transcribed; the Bengali body captions beneath the photographs are not transcribed in full.

[← Chitra Katha photo poster No. 36: Recent SEATO conference in Manila (Bengali photo poster distributed in Dacca)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chitra-katha-36-seato-council-manila-bengali-dacca-1958/) [American Aid Program poster No. 1, handshake (Lao-English poster distributed in Vientiane) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/american-aid-program-poster-no-1-laos-lao-1958/)

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