Pinback button for the Robert Kennedy campaign: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A pinback button for Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign. The button has a half black and half white background. Text throughout the center of the button reads [Kennedy For Equality]. The exterior edge of the button has the manufacturer's information printed in black ink. The back of the button has a metal pin with a clasp

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1968
• Manufactured by: N.G. Slater Corporation, American, founded 1936
• Subject of: Senator Robert F. Kennedy, American, 1925 - 1968
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 1 1/2 × 1 1/2 × 1/4 in. (3.8 × 3.8 × 0.6 cm)
• Place made: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Race relations
• Topic: U.S. History, 1961-1969
• Object number: 2013.68.112
• 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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