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Double V Campaign: Victory at Home and Victory Abroad
Further Reading

Bird, William L and Harry R. Rubenstein. Design for Victory: World War II Posters on the American Home Front. . Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998.

Bird and Rubenstein, both on the curatorial staff at the National Museum of American History, have assembled World War II posters and explored them under such chapter titles as "Every Citizen a Soldier," "The Posters Place in Wartime," and "Art, Advertising, and Audience."

Erenberg, Lewis A and Susan E. Hirsch, ed.. The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness during World War II.

This collection of thirteen essays explores the way different aspects of our culture adapted to portraying a united front during the war.

Kryder, Daniel. Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State During World War II.. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

This MIT professor takes a look at the racial climate in America during and after World War II. In particular Kryder examines the complexity of the relationship between the African-American and the federal government.


Web Sites

Ad*Access-Brief History of World War Two Advertising Campaigns: War Loans and Bonds http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/wwad-history.html

Offers a number of magazine advertisements organized by subject and provides a timeline of major advertising campaigns as they compare with landmark events of the war.

Article Archives-BlackPressUSA.com http://www.blackpressusa.com/history/Article_Archive.asp?week=10&Artic...

This web link is Daisy Lampkin's original obituary printed in the Pittsburgh Courier, March 20, 1965: "Daisy Lampkin Dies."

The Black Press-Soldiers Without Swords-Facilitator Guide Overview http://www.newsreel.org/guides/blackpress/overview.htm

This web link, found in the California Newsreel website, chronicles the reasons why the African-American community created their own newspapers.

The Black Press-Soldiers Without Swords-Facilitator Guide-Section 4-Treason? http://www.newsreel.org/guides/blackpress/treason.htm

This web link discusses the Double V Campaign and how the fight to end Jim Crow could aide in the war effort.

The Pittsburgh Courier http://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/courier.html

Part of a PBS film website, this link offers information on the battle to empower the African-American community and a brief history of the Pittsburgh Courier's circulation.

Tolerance.org, "Black History Month: Why Wasn't I Taught That?" http://www.tolerance.org/news/article_print.jsp?id=1154

This February 8, 2005 article by Brian Willougby entitled "Black History Month: Why Wasn't I Taught That?" is a part of the Teaching Tolerance section of this website, a project of Southern Poverty Law Center. The purpose of this reprinted article is to reveal the little known history of Daisy Lampkin.

Winter/Spring 2006 Exhibition Archives: Carnegie Museum of Art http://www.cmoa.org/exhibitions/archives06winspr.asp#teenie

This weblink shows a brief summary of a past exhibition held at the Carnegie Museum of Art entitled: Documenting Our Past: The "Teenie" Harris Archive Project, Part 2. Charles "Teenie" Harris photographed events and daily life in the Pittsburgh African-American community between 1936 and 1975.


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