“UNITED WE WILL WIN”

I think what the government was looking to achive with this poster was to end with most of
the racism in fabrics and among workers and encourage them to work together against the
enemy. Roosevelt’s administration also achive with this publicity black workers and white
workers to have more jobs in the war industry. The government was preparing the country for
war and they can not afford fights and setbacks with things like racismo or fights and
discrimination in fabrics. But appart from this many african americans continued to be
distriminated. For me these words mean what a country must be in war or in any situation of
this case, united.

I think that when you are in a situation like war you need to put all your strengh in win it. Your
government can not be concentrated in any other thing but the production of weapons,
bullets and war machinary. But not only the government, also the people must forget their
differences and fight with their local enemies (in politics, in villages…) for the future of the
country. And that is the message that I get from the image at a time were racismo was bigger
than now, forget differences and fight for a better future. But this poster only gives us a part of
the reality because is true that african americans worked with white americans in the army,
but they were only responsable of cooking, reparing tanks or planes and if they go to battle
they go with sections that were only composed by black people.

SOURCES:

"United We Win" · SHEC: Resources for Teachers (cuny.edu)

Segregados: soldados afroamericanos en la II Guerra Mundial (lavanguardia.com)