Pinback button for Robert F. Kennedy 1964 New York Senate campaign: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A 1964 campaign pinback button for Robert F. Kennedy for New York Senate and Lyndon B. Johnson for President. In 1964 Johnson ran as a candidate of the Democratic Party. Kennedy also ran as a candidate of the Democratic Party and was endorsed by Johnson. The button has blue, white, and red horizontal bands with [Johnson] and [Kennedy] printed in block white text in the blue and red bands. Four (4), red, five pointed stars are printed in the white band between the candidates’ names. There is a union mark printed along the rounded edges of this button. The back of the button is silver toned with a silver-colored pin.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1964
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Senator Robert F. Kennedy, American, 1925 - 1968
• Subject of: President Lyndon Baines Johnson, American, 1908 - 1973
• Subject of: Amalgamated Lithographers of America, American, founded 1882
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic laminate
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 1 1/8 × 1 × 3/16 in. (2.8 × 2.5 × 0.4 cm)
• Place made: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: U.S. History, 1961-1969
• Object number: 2017.88.2
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gifted by Dorothy and Eugene Bryant
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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