Pin for Influencing Decisions - A Design for Action of Alpha Kappa Alpha: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pin for Influencing Decisions - A Design for Action of Alpha Kappa Alpha: Date: 1978. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, founded 1908.
The object in the museum catalogue
An Alpha Kappa Alpha metal logo with a small metal loop attached to the top. The pendant is a small circle that has a compass rose at center that divides the pendant’s face into four sections. The left section has a hand holding a diploma, the top section has a scale, the right section has a hand holding a gavel and the bottom section has a domed building.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1978
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, founded 1908
- Subject of: Barbara Phillips, American, 1938 - 2013
- Type: logos
- Medium: metal
- Dimensions: 7/8 x 3/4 x 1/8 in. (2.2 x 1.9 x 0.3 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: Education
- Topic: Sororities
- Topic: Women
- Topic: Women's organizations
- Object number: 2013.133.2.21
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Historical Society of Washington, DC and the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed.
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