Rosie the Riveter Coloring Pages
Rosie the Riveter wasn't one woman. She was a nickname for all the women who took factory jobs during World War II, building airplanes and ships while so many men were overseas. A riveter's job was to fasten sheets of metal together with metal pins called rivets, which is why Rosie so often has a rivet gun in her hand.
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Rosie Flexes Her Muscles
The flexed arm comes from a 1943 poster made to cheer on factory workers, and the poster never mentioned Rosie at all. People started calling the woman on it Rosie decades later, and the two have been mixed up ever since.
Rosie Goes to Work
Riveters often worked in pairs, with one person using the rivet gun on one side of the metal while a partner held a heavy bar against the other side so the rivet flattened into place. A single airplane could need thousands of them.
Goodbye and Welcome Home
Many of the women in the factories had a husband or a brother overseas. Soldiers traveled by train in those days, so station platforms saw plenty of goodbyes and homecomings.
Rosie's Story in Five Panels
A five panel comic strip tells the story of the women who built airplanes, with words included so early readers can follow along.
Women and the World Wars
Rosie wasn't the first woman called in to help win a war. In World War I, about 200 American women went to France as Army telephone operators because they could speak both French and English, and they became known as the Hello Girls. They wore uniforms and did the job, but it took until 1977 for the government to recognize them as veterans...