Pinback button for the Poor People's Campaign: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button for the Poor People's Campaign: Date: 1968. Manufactured by: N.G. Slater Corporation, American, founded 1936. Subject of: Poor People's Campaign, American, 1967 - 1968.
The object in the museum catalogue
This pinback button features a black and white outline drawing of a person cradling a baby. Text on the upper right quarter reads: [Poor/People's/ Campaign/ 1968]. Along the button rim is manufacturer information that reads: [OFFICIAL MFR'S © N.G. Slater Corp, N.Y.C 11]. Next to this text is a union manufacturing seal that reads: [AFL-CIO/ Local 44] inside an oval and the words [Union Made] directly below the oval. The back of the button has a fastener with a clasp.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1968
- Manufactured by: N.G. Slater Corporation, American, founded 1936
- Subject of: Poor People's Campaign, American, 1967 - 1968
- Subject of: AFL-CIO, American, founded 1955
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 2 1/16 × 2 1/16 × 3/8 in. (5.2 × 5.2 × 1 cm)
- Place made: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Politics
- Topic: Poverty
- Topic: U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Object number: 2013.68.30
- 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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