Tom Lehrer

Posters promoting National Brotherhood Week in the US

Whatever became of National Brotherhood Week?

February 21, 2018Lifestyle

In the mid-20th century, National Brotherhood Week was a huge public relations campaign in the US aimed at promoting tolerance and brotherhood as American virtues. Most people don’t remember it anymore.

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