Pinback button featuring Martin Luther King Jr.: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button featuring Martin Luther King Jr.: Date: post 1967. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968.
The object in the museum catalogue
Round pin-back button featuring a color image of Martin Luther King Jr. Red, black, and green type circles the image of Martin Luther King Jr. and reads, [MAN SHOULD PUT AN END TO WAR/OR WAR WILL PUT AN END TO MAN!!!].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: post 1967
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968
- Owned by: Jan Bailey, American, 1942 - 2010
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: metal
- Dimensions: Diameter: 2 3/16 × 3/8 in. (5.6 × 1 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Justice
- Topic: Politics
- Topic: Violence
- Object number: 2013.201.1.21
- 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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