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title: '"A real home is worth a real fight!"'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-alston-real-home-worth-real-fight-1943/
description: A pencil cartoon shows a Black war worker in overalls and a Black soldier walking together toward a house where a woman and child wave from the doorway.
section: Collection
---

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[!["A real home is worth a real fight!", 1943 US cartoon: A pencil cartoon shows a Black war worker in overalls and a Black](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-owi-alston-real-home-worth-real-fight-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-owi-alston-real-home-worth-real-fight-1943.jpg)

# "A real home is worth a real fight!"

A pencil cartoon shows a Black war worker in overalls and a Black soldier walking together toward a house where a woman and child wave from the doorway. A printed news item above cites 88,000 housing units for Black tenants; the tell is glittering generalities, linking the abstract value of 'a real home' to fighting and war work, tied to a news item.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
NEGRO TENNANTS WILL OCCUPY 88,000 HOUSING UNITS WHEN CURRENT PUBLIC HOUSING PROGRAM IS COMPLETED IN JUNE...... NEWS ITEM

"A REAL HOME IS WORTH A REAL FIGHT!"

alston
```

[← A Pledge and a Prayer](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-alston-pledge-and-a-prayer-1943/) ["Remember Pearl Harbor - Work - Fight - Sacrifice!!" / "We'll remember - and by God, you won't forget!!" →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-alston-remember-pearl-harbor-work-fight-sacrifice-1943/)

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