Pinback button promoting the African National Congress: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button promoting the African National Congress: Date: ca.1985. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: African National Congress, South African, founded 1912.
The object in the museum catalogue
A striped pinback button promoting the African National Congress (ANC). The background colors, black, green, and yellow, are those of the ANC flag. [THE PEOPLE SHALL GOVERN!] appears in black text in the green stripe. [ANC] appears in black below this, in the center of the yellow segment. There are small stains around the rim and rust in the recesses of the metallic back. The back of the button has a metal fastener and clasp.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca.1985
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Subject of: African National Congress, South African, founded 1912
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: metal, ink on paper, plastic laminate
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 1 1/2 x 1/4 in. (3.8 x 0.6 cm)
- Place depicted: South Africa, Africa
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Africa
- Topic: Communication
- Topic: Decolonization
- Topic: International affairs
- Topic: Justice
- Topic: Politics
- Topic: U.S. History, 1969-2001
- Object number: 2011.178.3
- 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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