Pinback button commemorating the March on Washington: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Square pin-back button featuring a black and white photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. speaking at the 1963 March on Washington. Green, red, and black type appear above and below photograph. Type reads, [MARCH ON WASHINGTON/Jobs, Justice & Peace/1963/August 28/1993].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1993
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968
• Subject of: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, American, founded 1963
• Owned by: Jan Bailey, American, 1942 - 2010
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: metal
• Dimensions: H x W: 2 1/8 × 2 1/8 × 3/8 in. (5.4 × 5.4 × 1 cm)
• Place depicted: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Local and regional
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: U.S. History, 1969-2001
• Object number: 2013.201.1.44
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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