Brotherhood Week
1943
Designer
Designer Unknown
Publisher
Office of War Information
Printer
U.S. Government Printing Office Washington D.C
DIMENSIONS
20 x 28 in. (50.8 x 71.1 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.2025.828
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
United States
CREDIT LINE
Poster House Permanent Collection
KEYWORDS
Homefront, Political, President, War, WWII

This simple wartime propaganda poster, featuring only the words of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in support of Brotherhood Week in February 1943 (slightly extended that year), was issued by the Office of War Information to encourage Americans, regardless of background, to support and promote the ideals for which the Allied nations were fighting. National Brotherhood Week had been established in 1934 by the National Conference for Christians and Jews (NCCJ) (soon after Hitler had seized power in Germany) and was dedicated to fostering interracial and interreligious tolerance in a multicultural democracy. A pledge for those wishing to join the Brotherhood was written and disseminated soon after the war by film producer David O. Selznick in a short film titled The American Creed (1946) featuring various Hollywood stars and celebrities.

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