Pinback button for CORE's Freedom Rides: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button for CORE's Freedom Rides: Date: ca. 1961. Created by: ACE, American. Subject of: Congress of Racial Equality, American, founded 1942.
The object in the museum catalogue
A white and blue pin-back button. The blue band runs horizontally through the middle with white text, centered inside. Below the blue band is blue text along the bottom. [FREEDOM / RIDE / CORE]. On the reverse, inside the back on paper, is the manufacturer information with the address ["ACE" / 680 B'DWAY/N. Y. 12-GR 5-3485 / Buttons, Banners / Flags, Gavels]. To the side of the manufacturer information, in pencil, is the number 782].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1961
- Created by: ACE, American
- Subject of: Congress of Racial Equality, American, founded 1942
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: metal, ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 1 13/16 x 1 1/2 x 3/16 in. (4.6 x 3.8 x 0.5 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Politics
- Topic: U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Object number: 2012.159.9
- 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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