As America entered the Great War, suffragists turned President Wilson’s hypocritical pleas for democracy elsewhere in the world into a potent weapon at home.
During the Great War, women were called to serve in many capacities—both abroad and on the homefront. Propaganda posters took aim directly at those women.
Woodrow Wilson tapped George Creel to head up the Committee on Public Information, and Creel, in turn, created the Division of Pictorial Publicity, which churned out millions of posters encouraging support of the war.
