Pinback button promoting African Liberation Day: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button promoting African Liberation Day: Date: 1977. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: All-African People's Revolutionary Party, founded 1958.
The object in the museum catalogue
Round pin-back button with black silhouette image of Africa at center. Button has red type set against a yellow background. Type reads, [AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY/MAY 28, 1977/"THE CORE OF THE/BLACK REVOLUTION/IS IN AFRICA!"/ALL AFRICAN PEOPLES/REVOLUTIONARY PARTY].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1977
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Subject of: All-African People's Revolutionary Party, founded 1958
- Owned by: Jan Bailey, American, 1942 - 2010
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: metal
- Dimensions: Diameter: 2 3/16 × 1/4 in. (5.6 × 0.6 cm)
- Place depicted: Africa
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Africa
- Topic: African diaspora
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: Freedom
- Topic: Politics
- Object number: 2013.201.1.13
- 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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