Pinback button with "What 'Cha Gonna Do About Hate?" slogan: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A black and white pinback button for New York City organizations. The button has a black background. White text at center reads [What 'Cha Gonna Do About Hate?]. White text around the outer edge of the button reads [United Way of New York City / New York City Public Schools / Increase the Peace Volunteer Corps. / The CityKids Foundation]. The exterior edge of the pin has the manufacture’s information printed in white text. The back of the button has pin with a clasp.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: ca. 1990
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Subject of: The CityKids Foundation, American, founded ca. 1989
• Subject of: United Way of New York City, American
• Subject of: New York City Department of Education, American, founded 1842
• Subject of: Increase the Peace Volunteers Corps, American
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 2 3/16 × 2 1/4 × 1/4 in. (5.6 × 5.7 × 0.6 cm)
• Place depicted: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Education
• Topic: Social reform
• Topic: Urban life
• Object number: 2013.68.86
• 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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