These are heady days in America. After eight years of an illiterate hick pretending to be President, we have the excitement of a woman and a black guy duking it out. But, that’s hardly news, is it?
As riveting as the current state of affairs truly is, you have to go a long way to find anything as progressive as these pictures of Rosie the Riveter.
Going all the way back to 1943 we have an African American Rosie:
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And then there’s this woman welding from Vietnam:
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As Barack Obama might say, “Yes we can!”
Comments
hunter coy
on 23/2/2009, 11:54 pm
interesting
Sherley Petit-Homme
on 21/6/2010, 2:37 pm
Hello,
My name is Sherley Petit-Homme, art director with Women of Color (WOC) magazine.
We are publishing an article on African American women in the work force from the civil rights era until today. I stumbled onto the African American Rosie and I would like to use that image in our story.
Can I obtain a high-resolution of the photo for our magazine? I will give full credit to the photographer or site/magazine.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Regards,
Sherley
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Art Director
Career Communications Group, Inc.
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Baltimore, MD 21202
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Amber Rose
on 28/6/2010, 8:44 am
Why are we still talking about race? I thought we were past that. I thought we were all of the human race. Why are we still concerned with the appearance of the color of our skin?
Are we ready to move on?