Pinback button promoting the ANC and a free South Africa: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Round, pin-back button featuring an image of a dove next to a green silhouette of South Africa. Button has black background and yellow type. Type reads, [A / N / C / FOR A FREE / SOUTH AFRICA!].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: after 1985
• Published by: Fund for a Free South Africa, founded 1985
• Subject of: African National Congress, South African, founded 1912
• Owned by: Jan Bailey, American, 1942 - 2010
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: metal
• Dimensions: Diameter: 1 1/2 × 1/4 in. (3.8 × 0.6 cm)
• Place depicted: South Africa, Africa
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Africa
• Topic: Decolonization
• Topic: Freedom
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Politics
• Object number: 2013.201.1.41
• 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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