Pinback button for NWRO membership: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A square pinback button for the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO). The button has blue background. There is a white box at center that has red lettering above and below the (NWRO) symbol that reads [NWRO / Member]. The back of the button has the manufacture’s information printed along the edges in white ink. At center of the back, there is a meatal pin with a clasp.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1966-1975
• Manufactured by: Larry Fox Assoc., American
• Subject of: National Welfare Rights Organization, American, 1966 - 1975
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 2 1/8 × 2 1/8 × 5/16 in. (5.4 × 5.4 × 0.8 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Identity
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Labor
• Topic: Politics
• Object number: 2013.68.88
• 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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