Pinback button promoting All-African People's Revolutionary Party: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button promoting All-African People's Revolutionary Party: Date: after 1958. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: All-African People's Revolutionary Party, founded 1958.
The object in the museum catalogue
Round pin-back button featuring a black outline of Africa set against a yellow background. Yellow type appears within the Africa outline and reads, [ONE/UNIFIED/SOCIALIST/AFRICA]. Black type appears against a red circular border and reads, [ALL AFRICAN PEOPLES/REVOLUTIONARY PARTY].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: after 1958
- 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 1/4 × 3/8 in. (5.7 × 1 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Africa
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: International affairs
- Topic: Politics
- Object number: 2013.201.1.33
- 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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