"Special Delivery for Freedom!"

May 22, 1944
Charles Henry Alston
Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. News Bureau.

African American artist Charles Alston was hired by the Office of War Information to create patriotic sketches for black newspapers. The black press remained ambivalent about the war effort during World War II, given racism and inequality at home and the continued segregation of the US Armed Forces abroad.

National Archives at College Park - Still Pictures (RDSS), National Archives Identifier 535660