Pinback button for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A black pinback button with a white center. The white center is round with two small horizontal white bars extending out to the edges. The center has three lines of black text [WE / SHALL / OVERCOME]. At the top, curving around the edge of the button, is white text [STUDENT NONVIOLENT]. At the bottom, curving around the edge of the button [COORDINATING COMMITTEE]. The back of the button has metal pin with a clasp.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1960-1979
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 2 1/4 × 2 1/4 × 5/16 in. (5.7 × 5.7 × 0.8 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Political organizations
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: U.S. History, 1961-1969
• Object number: 2013.68.73
• 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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