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Camp Howze Museum

"I Made $1.35 in Tips Yesterday"

Item

Title
"I Made $1.35 in Tips Yesterday"
Description
Racist depiction of African men dressed in loin cloth and carrying the white soldiers’ goods.
Date
1944-07-04
Source
“I Made $1.35 in Tips Yesterday.” Camp Howze Howitzer, July 7, 1944.
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1407230/.
accessed April 2, 2022, University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History,
crediting Cooke County Library.
Subject
World War II
WWII
World War 2
WW2
Negro soldier
Black soldier
Colored soldier
African American soldier
U.S. Army soldier
American soldier
white soldier
African
servant
loin cloth
servitude
racist comic
racism
blackface
superiority
white privilege
greatest generation