Pinback button for Freedom, Inc.: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A white pinback button with black text and a black and white image of hands in shackles. The text at the top of the button reads “VOTE POWER.” The text at the bottom of the button reads “FREEDOM / INC.”

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1960s
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Freedom, Inc., American, founded 1961
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
• Dimensions: Diameter: 3 in. (7.6 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Suffrage
• Topic: U.S. History, 1961-1969
• Object number: 2011.159.3.15
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Dawn Simon Spears and Alvin Spears, Sr.
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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