Pinback button with "LGBTQ+ for Stacey Abrams": Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A round, navy blue pinback button. A rainbow is printed at the top, with [LGBTQ+] in bright blue letters followed by [FOR / STACEY / ABRAMS] in white letters. Across the bottom is printed [Stacy Abrams, Sarah Riggs Amico, Charlie Bailey and John Barrow - Delivering for Georgia] in white letters. There is a union printing label beneath the text.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2018
• Created by: Stacey Abrams for Governor, American, founded 2018
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Stacey Y. Abrams, American, born 1973
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper (fiber product) with metal and plastic
• Dimensions: Diameter: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)
• Place depicted: Georgia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: LGBTQ
• Topic: Political organizations
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: U.S. History, 2001-
• Object number: 2019.43.5
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Earl Fowlkes in honor of Thomas Kevin King
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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