Help me win my victory!! Join the March of Dimes!
A frightened Black girl with arms held out is grasped at the ankle by a huge hooded skeletal figure labelled 'Infantile Paralysis'. The tell is fear-appeal paired with a donation request: the personified disease and the child's plea 'my victory' connect a health fundraising drive to the wartime language of victory.
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
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Health, 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 (NARA), RG 208, Artworks and Mockups for Cartoons Promoting the War Effort (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-47 (NAID 535617).
Text on the object
INFANTILE PARALYSIS alston for OWI "HELP ME WIN MY VICTORY!!~JOIN THE MARCH OF DIMES!"
