Pinback button for the Scottsboro United Front Defense: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Small circular pinback button with black text on an off-white background. At the center of the button is the message "I Gave to Save the Scottsboro Boys" with the union label of the Allied Printing Trades Council fo Baltimore. The folowing text surrounds the outer rim of the button: "Negro & White Workers Unite!"/"Scottsboro United Front Defense".

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1931-1932
• Manufactured by: Eagle Regalia Company, American, founded 1910
• Subject of: Scottsboro Boys, American, 1931 - 1989
• Subject of: International Labor Defense, American, 1925 - 1946
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: plastic and metal
• Dimensions: Diameter: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm)
• Place made: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Place printed: Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Labor
• Topic: Race relations
• Object number: 2012.46.35
• 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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