Pinback buttons with the phrase "Everybody got a right to live": Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Two white pinback buttons (2013.68.7.1-.2) with black lettering. On each button, the letters are centered in the top quarter. The black text reads [Everybody got a right to live]. Below the text is an image of a man with raised fists chained together by red handcuffs. The backs of the buttons have pins without clasps.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1968-1990s
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, American, 1933 - 1986
• Subject of: Deacons for Defense and Justice, American, founded 1964
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: paper on metal with plastic
• Dimensions: H x W x D (2013.68.7.1): 1 3/4 × 1 3/4 × 1/4 in. (4.4 × 4.4 × 0.6 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W x D (2013.68.7.2): 1 3/4 × 1 3/4 × 3/16 in. (4.4 × 4.4 × 0.5 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Jonesboro, Jackson Parish, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Folk (Music)
• Topic: Justice
• Object number: 2013.68.7.1-.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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