Pinback button for the release of political prisoners: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A round, yellow, pin back button with central black text over top of red text. The black text reads: [FREE ALL / POLITICAL / PRISONERS]. Red text in the background reads: [Ahmed Evans / Bobby Seale - Cleaver / Lee Otis Johnson / Erika Huggins - Catonsville 9 / Cha Cha Jimenez - Eli Ramos / Milwaukee 14 - Priest Haven 9 / Martin Sostre - Panther 21 - Huey / Conspiracy 7 - Ron Rosen / Bob Williams / Las Siete - Presidio 27 / Sam Melville/Buffalo 9]. Along the bottom additional red text reads: [Radical Defense Fund]. The back of the pin has a fastener without a clasp.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1960s
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Black Panther Party, American, 1966 - 1982
• Subject of: José Jiménez, Puerto Rican, 1948 - 2025
• Subject of: Eldridge Cleaver, American, 1935 - 1998
• Subject of: Dr. Huey P. Newton, American, 1942 - 1989
• Subject of: Bobby Seale, American, born 1936
• Subject of: Ericka Huggins, American, born 1948
• Subject of: Afeni Shakur, American, 1947 - 2016
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: metal, plastic, paper
• Dimensions: Diameter: 1 7/16 × 3/16 in. (3.7 × 0.5 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Political organizations
• Topic: Politics
• Object number: 2014.109.7.8
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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