Pinback button for the Southern Student Organizing Committee: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button for the Southern Student Organizing Committee: Date: 1964-1969. Illustrated by: Claude Weaver, American. Manufactured by: Olympic Button & Emblem Co., American.
The object in the museum catalogue
A pinback button for the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC). The button has a white background. At center is a confederate flag with two hands shaking over it. The exterior edge 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: 1964-1969
- Illustrated by: Claude Weaver, American
- Manufactured by: Olympic Button & Emblem Co., American
- Subject of: Southern Student Organizing Committee, founded 1964
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 1 5/16 × 1 5/16 × 1/4 in. (3.3 × 3.3 × 0.6 cm)
- Place depicted: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: American South
- Topic: Education
- Topic: Race relations
- Topic: U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Object number: 2013.68.119
- 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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