Pinback button stating "20 Years Later...We Stand", from MMM 20th Anniversary: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button stating "20 Years Later...We Stand", from MMM 20th Anniversary: Date: 2015. Distributed by: Justice or Else, American, founded 2015. Subject of: Million Man March, American, founded 1995.
The object in the museum catalogue
It reads [20 YEARS LATER...WE STAND/ Justice, OR ELSE.] in white. In between the two lines of text is a large "2015" with a picture of a crowd on the National Mall in front of the Capitol Building. The image is inside of the numbers.
There are several small scratches on the pin. The back is metal and does not have anything on it other than a pin at the top.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 2015
- Distributed by: Justice or Else, American, founded 2015
- Subject of: Million Man March, American, founded 1995
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: ink on paper with plastic laminate and metal
- Dimensions: Diameter: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
- Place collected: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Justice
- Topic: Local and regional
- Topic: Men
- Topic: Race relations
- Topic: Social reform
- Object number: 2015.251.14.1
- 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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