Pinback button reading "Caribbean Americans for Jesse Jackson": Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button reading "Caribbean Americans for Jesse Jackson": Date: 1980s. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Rev. Jesse Jackson, American, 1941 - 2026.
The object in the museum catalogue
A yellow and black pinback button supporting Jesse Jackson. The button has black dots around the outer edge. At center is an image of Jesse Jackson. Above Jackson black text reads [Caribbean Americans For Jesse Jackson]. Below Jackson, black text reads [C.A.L.].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1980s
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Rev. Jesse Jackson, American, 1941 - 2026
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 2 9/16 × 2 9/16 × 1/4 in. (6.5 × 6.5 × 0.6 cm)
- Cultural Place: Caribbean, North and Central America
- Place used: United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: African diaspora
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: Communities
- Topic: Immigration
- Topic: U.S. History, 1969-2001
- Object number: 2013.68.49
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of T. Rasul Murray
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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