Fred R. Moore - Humanitarian, Editor, Leader, 1857-1943
A biographical panel with a pencil portrait of Fred R. Moore and three vignettes: a barefoot newsboy, Moore with a map of Africa, and a crowd before the New York Age office advertising a $2,000,000 war bond drive. The tell is transfer: the subject's respected career is attached to the war bond drive, with praise terms such as 'tireless fighter for democracy'.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information (cartoon artwork; artist Charles Alston)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Race and ethnicity, Home front, Media and information
- 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 208, OWI War Effort Cartoon Artworks (NAID 535594), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Office of War Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 208, 208-COM-76 (NAID 535620).
Text on the object
FRED R. MOORE HUMANITARIAN, EDITOR, LEADER 1857 - 1943 STARTED HIS NEWSPAPER CAREER AS A BAREFOOT NEWSBOY ON THE STREETS OF WASHINGTON! HIMSELF A FORMER MINISTER TO LIBERIA, HE WAS THE FATHER-IN-LAW OF THE PRESENT MINISTER, LESTER WALTON. NEW YORK AGE $1000 IN PRIZES!!! $2,000,000 WAR BOND DRIVE! FOR 35 YEARS HE WAS EDITOR OF "THE NEW YORK AGE", ONE OF FIVE NEGRO NEWSPAPERS NOW ENGAGED IN A $2,000,000 WAR BOND DRIVE. A TIRELESS FIGHTER FOR DEMOCRACY, HE WAS VERY ACTIVE IN RED CROSS AND WAR DRIVES IN THE LAST WAR. Alston OWI OWI-DC-114
