Title
Speak American
Creator
Date
c. 1943
Format
Publisher
Description
This is one of five posters which represent approximately 200 similar posters created by school children in Hawaii during World War II. Most of the themes chosen by the children parallel themes illustrated by posters produced for the government to promote the war effort or propaganda: Victory Gardens, scrap metal and rubber drives, Work to Win Campaign, Dengue Fever eradication. One particular poster in striking deep blue and bright red fosters what many today would consider racist jingoism: the “Speak American” campaign; ironically, this poster was painted by a Japanese American boy, age seven.
Is Part Of
Hawaiian Collection, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library