A very special historical poster. Sold at freemans auction for 3,000 dollars recently, and the highest sale was 12,000 at poster auctions international.
Artist: ANONYMOUS
Size: 15 3/4 x 20 in./40 x 50.7 cm
Printer: E. G. Renesch, Chicago
Reference: Ref: PAI-LXXXIII, 53
Key Words: War & Propaganda; American
Colored Man is No Slacker. 1918.
"Colored Man is No Slacker"—or rather, he's no draft-dodger. For this World War I enlistment ad, an African American infantry unit marches with the American flag held aloft as a couple tenderly says goodbye. Patriotism is both literally illustrated and subtly implied with notes of red and white punctuating the flowers around the woman's blue dress; "these are good people who serve their country," the poster intones. In fact, more than 350,000 black men, trained and deployed in segregated units, served in the U.S. military during World War I, and 42,000 of them saw action in Europe. There's no denying the conflation of American ideals at this time: Americans were encouraged to enlist, to form a strong united front, to fight the evils of Europe together—and yet the troops were segregated, and black men were usually given burdensome non-combat shifts
$2,000 - $10,000
Consistent with age and use.
Fine Art, Works on Paper
18%
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