Pinback button with [FREE ANGELA AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS]: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A round, yellow pinback button with a photographic portrait of Angela Davis in the center, pictured from the neck up. Across the top of the button, in bold black text, is [FREE ANGELA]. Below the portrait, in smaller black text, is [AND / ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS]. On the underside of the rim is text that reads [N.G. Slater Corp. N.Y.C. 11].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1970-1972
• Manufactured by: N.G. Slater Corporation, American, founded 1936
• Subject of: Angela Y. Davis, American, born 1944
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper with plastic and metal
• Dimensions: Diameter: 1 11/16 × 3/16 in. (4.3 × 0.5 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Prisons
• Topic: Race relations
• Object number: 2014.72.8.8
• 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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