Pinback button for the National Chicano Moratorium Committee: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A pinback button for the anti-Vietnam War National Chicano Moratorium Committee. The button has a blue background with gray text that reads [moratorium]. The exterior edge has a manufacturer's stamp. The back of the button has a metal pin without a clasp and an illegible manufacturer's etching.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1969
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Subject of: National Chicano Moratorium Committee, American, founded 1968
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 1 1/4 × 1 5/16 × 3/16 in. (3.2 × 3.3 × 0.5 cm)
• Cultural Place: Mexico, Latin America, North and Central America
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: International affairs
• Topic: Resistance
• Topic: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
• Object number: 2013.68.99
• 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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