Pinback button for the Congress of Racial Equality: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A pink button for the Congress of Racial Equality. The background of the button is pink. At center is a black flag with a white diagonal stripe. On the flag, green and white writing reads [Black Togetherness / CORE]. Text surrounding the flag reads [Oh Say Can You See]. The back of the button has a metal pin without a clasp.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: after 1942
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Congress of Racial Equality, American, founded 1942
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 2 1/8 × 2 1/8 × 3/16 in. (5.4 × 5.4 × 0.5 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Identity
• Topic: Political organizations
• Topic: U.S. History, 1953-1961
• Object number: 2013.68.80
• 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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