Pinback button for Dick Gregory's 1968 write-in presidential campaign: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A pinback button supporting Dick Gregory for President of the United States of America from the 1968 Presidential elections. The button features black, red, and yellow horizontal bands across the front with centered, black, yellow, and red text in varying sizes and fonts that reads [Write in / DICK GREGORY / PRESIDENT / PEACE AND FREEDOM]. Small black text printed along the edge of the button reads [N.G. SLATER CORP. N.Y.C.]. The back of the button is plain with a rusty silver tone metal backing with a pin back at its center.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1968
• Manufactured by: N.G. Slater Corporation, American, founded 1936
• Subject of: Dick Gregory, American, 1932 - 2017
• Subject of: Peace and Freedom Party, American, founded 1967
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper (fiber product) with metal and plastic
• Dimensions: Diameter: 1 7/16 in. (3.7 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 1 7/16 × 1 7/16 × 3/16 in. (3.7 × 3.7 × 0.4 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Comedy
• Topic: Entertainers
• Topic: Political organizations
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Social reform
• Object number: 2022.63.3
• 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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