Pinback button promoting All-African People's Revolutionary Party: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Round pin-back button featuring black silhouette of Africa set against a white background. At the center of the Africa silhouette is white type that reads, [ONE/UNIFIED/SOCIALIST/AFRICA]. Black type circles the center image of Africa and reads, [ALL-AFRICAN PEOPLE'S/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: African diaspora
• Topic: International affairs
• Topic: Politics
• Object number: 2013.201.1.34
• 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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