Pinback button for the International Black Expo: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button for the International Black Expo: Date: 1970s. Manufactured by: N.G. Slater Corporation, American, founded 1936. Issued by: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, American, founded 1957.
The object in the museum catalogue
A green pinback button with black and red accents. The top of the button has a circle with a depiction of a fist holding arrows. At the tips of the arrows are dollar signs. Below, red and black text reads [International Black Expo]. Black text at the bottom edge reads [N.G. Slater Corp. N.Y.C. 11]. The back of the button has a metal pin with a clasp.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1970s
- Manufactured by: N.G. Slater Corporation, American, founded 1936
- Issued by: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, American, founded 1957
- Type: money
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 3 × 3 × 3/8 in. (7.6 × 7.6 × 1 cm)
- Place used: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Black Enterprise
- Topic: Business
- Topic: Commerce
- Topic: Education
- Topic: Health
- Topic: Politics
- Object number: 2013.68.20
- 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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