Pinback button for Herman B. Ferfuson's campaign for Senate: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button for Herman B. Ferfuson's campaign for Senate: Date: 1968. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Herman B. Ferguson, American, born 1921.
The object in the museum catalogue
A pinback button for Herman B. Ferguson's U.S. Senate campaign. The button has a black background with white text throughout that reads [Survival - Liberation / Herman B. Ferguson For Senate / Freedom & Peace Party]. The exterior edge of has the manufacturer's information, partially visible, printed in white. The back of button has a metal pin without a clasp.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1968
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Herman B. Ferguson, American, born 1921
- Subject of: Freedom and Peace Party, American, founded 1968
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 1 3/8 × 1 1/4 × 5/16 in. (3.5 × 3.2 × 0.8 cm)
- Place used: New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Politics
- Topic: U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Object number: 2013.68.53
- 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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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The displayed image also has an explicit CC0 designation. The underlying object's rights statement is: No Known Copyright Restrictions Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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