Pinback button promoting ANC's Solidarity with South African Women: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button promoting ANC's Solidarity with South African Women: Date: 1984. Manufactured by: N.G. Slater Corporation, American, founded 1936. Subject of: African National Congress, South African, founded 1912.
The object in the museum catalogue
Round pin-back button featuring a black and white graphic of a person raising their fist in the air. Black type, set against white background, reads, [Now you/have touched/the women,/you have/struck/a rock!/1984: ANC Year of/Solidarity with/South African/Women]. Border of button's back has black type that reads, [PEOPLE'S ANTI-WAR MOBILIZATION 19 W. 21 ST, N.Y.C. 212-741-0633 N.G. SLATER CORP. N.Y.C.].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1984
- Manufactured by: N.G. Slater Corporation, American, founded 1936
- Subject of: African National Congress, South African, founded 1912
- Attributed to: People's Anti-War Mobilization, American, founded 1970s
- Owned by: Jan Bailey, American, 1942 - 2010
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: metal
- Dimensions: Diameter: 2 3/16 × 5/16 in. (5.6 × 0.8 cm)
- Place depicted: South Africa, Africa
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Africa
- Topic: Justice
- Topic: Politics
- Topic: U.S. History, 1969-2001
- Topic: Violence
- Topic: Women
- Object number: 2013.201.1.40
- 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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