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The Ohio Daily Express
Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio
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Roy Wilkins of the NAACP charged Life magazine's Picture History of World War II with deliberately omitting records of non-white contributions, particularly Negro soldiers, in a letter to publisher Andrew Heiskell.
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NEW YORK. (ANP)- Life magazine's Picture History of World War II is a "lily-white" book which "manages, skillfully and deliberately to carry no record of the non-whites who helped toward victory," Roy Wilkins, administrator of the NAACP, charged last week in a letter to Life Publisher Andrew Heiskell. Noting that the 364-page volume of text and photographs includes only one picture of a Negro soldier - - an accordion player weeping over the death of President Roosevelt, Mr. Wilkins lamented the fact that the book gave no indication "that one-tenth of the population of America had its share of men in the uniform of their country doing their best all over the world in the fight against Hitlerism and Japanese imperialism." The participation of numerous Negro units in both the European and Pacific theaters was cited by Mr. Wilkins, especially the building of the Ledo road and the Alcan highway, with the observation that "even the smallest bit" of the record "has been blotted out."
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Roy Wilkins, administrator of the NAACP, charged in a letter to Life Publisher Andrew Heiskell that Life magazine's Picture History of World War II is a 'lily-white' book that deliberately omits records of non-white contributions to the victory, including only one picture of a Negro soldier and ignoring the participation of Negro units in European and Pacific theaters, such as building the Ledo road and Alcan highway.