Flip to Wounded African-American soldier speaking at #1 Machine Shop during the Seventh War Loan drive, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2, 1945.Close Window
Credit: Courtesy of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Second Century Acquisition Fund and gift of Milton and Nancy Washington, 1996.55.7
During World War II, African Americans participated in war bond drives and organized their own drives. In Pittsburgh, Ruth Gwynnon, on the far right, organized the campaign pictured here.
