Pinback button for Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 presidential primary campaign: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A 1968 presidential primary campaign pinback button for Senator Robert F. Kennedy. The button is white with a blue, graphic outline of the United States. Red and blue text printed within the graphic reads, [KENNEDY / the spirit of ‘68]. There is a union mark printed along the rounded edges of this button. The back of the button is silver toned with a brass pin.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1968
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Senator Robert F. Kennedy, American, 1925 - 1968
• Subject of: Allied Printing Trades Council, founded 1911
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic laminate
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 2 5/16 × 2 3/16 × 3/8 in. (5.9 × 5.6 × 0.9 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: 2017.88.1
• 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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