Pinback button for the NAACP: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Small red and white on navy blue NAACP lapel pin. At the center of the pin is a graphic of a set of judical scales in front of an open book with the acroynm "NAACP" at the center. The words "DEMOCRACY FOR ALL" surround the graphic. The button has an unlocking pin style back.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1940s - 1950s
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Subject of: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: metal
• Dimensions: Diameter: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Politics
• Object number: 2011.159.3.55
• 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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