{"id":11900,"date":"2020-02-21T14:04:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T22:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/wilkinson\/2020\/02\/21\/black-beauties-more-than-just-pretty-girls\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T23:51:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:51:48","slug":"black-beauties-more-than-just-pretty-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2020\/02\/21\/black-beauties-more-than-just-pretty-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Beauties: More than just pretty girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

While searching through the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) archives, history professor Dr. Charissa Threat came across something peculiar. It was a letter written by two black soldiers in WWII sent to the NAACP asking for pin-up images of black women.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe don\u2019t have enough images of black women,\u201d said Threat paraphrasing the soldiers\u2019 letter.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Dr. Charissa Threat\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pin-up images, images of glamorized women starlets and models, reached the height of their popularity during WWII, serving as distractions and morale boosters for soldiers to literally \u201cpin-up\u201d during the war. However, most of these models were white.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was struck by the fact that these two black soldiers would write to this organization that was rather conservative at that moment in time, during WWII, and was focused on [combating legal] discrimination,\u201d said Threat.<\/span><\/p>\n

The NAACP wrote back, unable to take action, and redirected the men\u2019s request to local news outlets.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI thought the letter was curious and held on to it,\u201d said Threat.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Ellen Stewart, \u201cPin-up Girl,\u201d Chicago Defender<\/em>, 7 April 1945, pg. 15<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Shortly after finishing her first book, <\/span>Nursing Civil Rights<\/span><\/i>, Dr. Threat revisited that letter she held on to, wondering what had happened. Threat found that the NAACP had forwarded the request to the Pittsburgh Courier<\/em>, a major nationally-distributed black newspaper. Upon further investigation, she saw similar appeals in the Chicago Defender<\/em> and the Baltimore Afro-American<\/em> from other soldiers. Columnists and soldiers were writing to women in African American communities, asking them to send their portraits. And they did.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Eleanor Morris, \u201cAAF Pin-up,\u201d Chicago Defender<\/em>, 26 May 1945, pg. 14<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWhat people know about the pin-up’s narrative is very one-sided. The images that we hear about are African American entertainers like Lena Horne. But we really don\u2019t hear about regular African American women doing this,\u201d Threat explained. \u201cI like to not only challenge traditional narratives, but also help people to understand that the narratives of black women in WWII are much more than they tend to know especially because what we do know about African American history is so small.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Like some of their white counterparts, black female pin-up\u00a0 pictures depicted more than physical beauty. Soldiers were really interested in images of the girl who had it all\u2014who was\u00a0 well-liked in her community, had an education, was a member of a church, and had a great job. This phenomenon grew as black army units would even select a favorite pin-up girl to be published in stateside newspapers as their favorite \u201ccamp sweetheart.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cShows What She Learned,\u201d Chicago Defender<\/em>, 24 March 1945, pg.11.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For Threat, this story is about more than just pictures of \u201cpretty girls.\u201d \u201cFor these black soldiers, they were really thinking about maintaining community relations back home,\u201d said Threat. These pictures gave something for black soldiers to rally behind: preserving their home, their people, and the future of their communities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Threat has received several awards for her work on black pin-ups, including a Mellon Faculty and Residence Fellowship and a highly-coveted National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. She intends to expand this initial research into an article and book exploring black emotional intimacy during WWII.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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