She is Alert Against Fascism

This is a poster that was put out by the Catalan UGT. It depicts an African-American woman, in uniform, with a weapon slung over her back. The words say, “She is alert against fascism.” The poster proudly boasts of the ‘universality’ of their cause, proudly displaying the two minorities that helped the fight against fascism: women and African-Americans. There is, however, a question of accuracy; for there is no record (that I know of) of African-American women participating in the cause, and the women that did participate, participated entirely (with one exception) in the medical field. No woman engaged in actual combat. The poster is effective in displaying a positive view of the Anti-Fascist forces. It was a universal cause, and the soldiers were shown as young and strong.
I also found the colors of the poster interesting: red, white and blue. These became the colors of freedom and independence after the American Revolution and the French Revolution. These were colors that everyone would recognize and associate with the struggle for freedom, the struggle that the Anti-Fascists were undertaking.