Pinback button for the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A large, white, round pinback button with blue text. Black and white portrait images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy are at the center of the button. The text above the image reads "P.C.L.C-S.C.L.C / JOBS-INCOME / POOR PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN 1968 / WASHINGTON, DC." The text below the image reads "I HAVE A DREAM." On the curl is printed "copyright 1968 Laurance Henry."

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1968
• Designed by: Laurance Henry
• Subject of: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968
• Subject of: Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, American, 1926 - 1990
• Subject of: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, American, founded 1957
• Subject of: Poor People's Campaign, American, 1967 - 1968
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 3 1/2 × 3 1/2 × 3/8 in. (8.9 × 8.9 × 1 cm)
• Place depicted: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Labor
• Topic: Local and regional
• Topic: Poverty
• Topic: U.S. History, 1961-1969
• Object number: 2011.159.3.1
• 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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