Doing Their Share, Too
Three women walk side by side in front of a large US flag, dressed respectively in a nurse-style white uniform, work overalls and gloves carrying a lunch pail, and a military-style uniform with cap. The tell is transfer: the flag behind them lends national authority to women's war work, and the paired subject (NARA's subjects include African Americans) presents Black women's service as part of the common effort.
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
- Home front, Gender and suffrage, Race and ethnicity
- 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-6 (NAID 535600).
Text on the object
[Signed:] Alston [Caption, partly cut off at the lower edge of the scan:] DOING THEIR SHARE, TO[O]
