Pinback button with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee logo: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee logo: Date: 1960s. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s.
The object in the museum catalogue
A white and black, circle shaped pinback button with a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee logo at center. The logo depicts two stylized clasped hands, one black and one white. In black text beneath the logo is “SNCC.” The button has an unlocking pin style back.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1960s
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
- Dimensions: Diameter: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
- Place used: United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Object number: 2011.159.3.4
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Dawn Simon Spears and Alvin Spears, Sr.
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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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: Unknown - Restrictions Possible Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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