Pinback button with "I'm Black and Proud" slogan: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button with "I'm Black and Proud" slogan: Date: after 1968. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Type: buttons (information artifacts).
The object in the museum catalogue
A pinback button with a yellow background and black text that reads [say it loud: / "I'm Black and Proud"]. Above the text at the top of the button are two silhouettes. The back of the button has a metal pin without a clasp.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: after 1968
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 2 1/4 × 2 1/4 in. (5.7 × 5.7 cm)
- Place used: United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Black power
- Topic: Identity
- Object number: 2013.68.55
- 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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