Pinback button for SNCC's One Man One Vote campaign: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button for SNCC's One Man One Vote campaign: Date: ca. 1965. Created by: Unidentified. Subject of: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s.
The object in the museum catalogue
A Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee pin back button with the top half in black with white text and the bottom half in white with black text. In the middle, center is [SNCC] with the letters split in half with the top half in white and the bottom half in black. The text on the button reads: [ONE MAN / SNCC / ONE VOTE]. On the reverse is a small, white, round sticker with the number [173] and a pin without a fastener.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1965
- Created by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: metal, ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 1 3/16 x 1 x 1/8 in. (3 x 2.5 x 0.3 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Politics
- Topic: U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Object number: 2012.159.2
- 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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