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
- Date
- April 8, 1958
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Race and ethnicity, Home front
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, April 8, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948817, 306-PPB-34y).
Text on the object
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.
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.
