Pinback button which reads "Reparations.. Now!": Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Round pin-back button featuring a black and white image of an African American man hung from a wood post and an African American woman hung by her hands from a tree branch. Black type appears above and below imagery and reads, [REPARATIONS../NOW!].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: mid 20th Century
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Owned by: Jan Bailey, American, 1942 - 2010
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: metal
• Dimensions: Diameter: 2 3/16 × 3/8 in. (5.6 × 1 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Lynching
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Slavery
• Topic: Violence
• Object number: 2013.201.1.49
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: No Known Copyright Restrictions Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.