Pinback button in remembrance of Hurricane Katrina victims: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button in remembrance of Hurricane Katrina victims: Date: after 2005. Attributed to: National Black Environmental Justice Network, American, founded 1999. Owned by: Jan Bailey, American, 1942 - 2010.
The object in the museum catalogue
Round pin-back button featuring white type set against a photographic background depicting African Americans suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Photographic background has been colorized green and red on edges. White type on button reads, [Remember Katrina/Fight Racism, Poverty and Pollution!!/National Black Environmental Justice Network/Safe and Healthy Communities Campaign/NBEJN/P.O. Box 15395/Washington, D.C. 20003/202-265-4919/WWW.NBEJN.ORG].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: after 2005
- Attributed to: National Black Environmental Justice Network, American, founded 1999
- Owned by: Jan Bailey, American, 1942 - 2010
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: metal
- Dimensions: Diameter: 3 × 3/8 in. (7.6 × 1 cm)
- Place depicted: New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: American South
- Topic: Communities
- Topic: Justice
- Topic: Politics
- Topic: U.S. History, 2001-
- Object number: 2013.201.1.53
- 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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