Black Woman Inspired 'Rosie the Riveter'

[Roy A. Logan]

This is the original picture taken in 1943 of a black woman working on an assembly line at an airplane factory in Tennessee.

This is what America was given in a reproduction by Norman Rockwell on the front cover of 'Saturday Evening Post.'

It also inspired the 'We Can Do It!' poster.

 

[joe taylor]

To any careful observer it is obvious that Roy is right since when did white women start wearing the aunt Jemimah head scarfs?