Pinback button for Jesse Jackson’s 1984 presidential campaign: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button for Jesse Jackson’s 1984 presidential campaign: Date: 1984. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Rev. Jesse Jackson, American, 1941 - 2026.
The object in the museum catalogue
Round pin-back buttons featuring blue text against a white background. It reads [JESSE / JACKSON / '84]. Around the bottom lip on the back is a blue logo and text that reads [PD. FOR BY JACKSON FOR PRES. COMM.] The point of the button's pin fastener protrudes at the bottom.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1984
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Rev. Jesse Jackson, American, 1941 - 2026
- Owned by: Jan Bailey, American, 1942 - 2010
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: metal
- Dimensions: H x W: 1 9/16 × 1 3/8 × 3/16 in. (4 × 3.5 × 0.5 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Politics
- Object number: 2013.201.1.1-3
- 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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