Pinback button for N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund anti-lynching campaign: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A blue and white circular pinback button. The top half reads "STOP LYNCHING" in white on blue background; the lower half reads "N.A.A.C.P. / LEGAL DEFENSE FUND" in blue on a white background. The button has an unlocking pin style back.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1940s
• Created by: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909
• Subject of: NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., American, founded 1940
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: metal, plastic and ink on paper
• Dimensions: Diameter: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Hate crimes
• Topic: Law
• Topic: Lynching
• Topic: Politics
• Object number: 2011.159.3.12
• 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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