Pinback button for CORE: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button for CORE: Date: after 1942. Manufactured by: N.G. Slater Corporation, American, founded 1936. Subject of: Congress of Racial Equality, American, founded 1942.
The object in the museum catalogue
A pinback button for the Congress of Racial Equality. The button has two rings surrounding a circle. The outermost ring is red, the second ring is black, and the center circle is green. Black text at the bottom reads [CORE]. The back of the button has a metal pin with a clasp.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: after 1942
- Manufactured by: N.G. Slater Corporation, American, founded 1936
- Subject of: Congress of Racial Equality, American, founded 1942
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 1 × 1 × 1/4 in. (2.5 × 2.5 × 0.6 cm)
- Place used: United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Political organizations
- Topic: U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Object number: 2013.68.106
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of T. Rasul Murray
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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