Backing the Attack on All Fronts!!! (National Negro Newspaper Week)
A newspaper page headed 'The Negro Press: Win the War - Plan the Peace!!' has a farm woman carrying produce, a rifle-bearing soldier and a factory worker stepping out of it, under the caption 'Backing the attack on all fronts!!!'. The tell is identity fusion: the Black press, farm, army and war plant are drawn as one body with a single war aim.
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
- Diaspora or minority
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Home front, Media and information, 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 and Records Administration, Record Group 208, OWI 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-81 (NAID 535625).
Text on the object
NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEEK FEB. 27th ~ MAR. 4th 1827 ~ 1944 The NEGRO PRESS WIN THE WAR - PLAN THE PEACE!! "BACKING THE ATTACK ON ALL FRONTS!!!"
