Pinback buttons for The Fortune Society: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

2013.68.8.1: A red-orange pinback button with a flying bird silhouette in black ink. The lower half of the bird has stripes. Along the bottom margin are the words [The Fortune Society]. The back has a pin without a clasp.

2013.68.8.2: A green pinback button with a flying bird silhouette in black ink. The lower half of the bird has stripes. Along the bottom margin are the words [The Fortune Society]. The back has a pin without a clasp.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: after 1967
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Subject of: The Fortune Society, American, founded 1967
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper on metal with plastic
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 1 1/2 × 1 1/2 × 3/16 in. (3.8 × 3.8 × 0.5 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 1 1/2 × 1 1/2 × 1/4 in. (3.8 × 3.8 × 0.6 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Humanitarianism
• Topic: Prisons
• Object number: 2013.68.8.1-.2
• 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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