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Pinback button for the Poor People's Campaign

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This pinback button features a black and white outline drawing of a person cradling a baby. Text on the upper right quarter reads: [Poor/People's/ Campaign/ 1968]. Along the button rim is manufacturer information that reads: [OFFICIAL MFR'S © N.G. Slater Corp, N.Y.C 11]. Next to this text is a union manufacturing seal that reads: [AFL-CIO/ Local 44] inside an oval and the words [Union Made] directly below the oval. The back of the button has a fastener with a clasp.
Format:
Ink On Paper With Metal And Plastic
Rights:
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of T. Rasul Murray
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National Museum of African American History and Culture

Record Harvested From

Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

  1. Activism
  2. Afl Cio
  3. African American
  4. African American Latinx Solidarity
  5. African Americans
  6. Civil Rights
  7. N.G. Slater Corp
  8. Politics
  9. Poor People's Campaign
  10. Poverty
  11. U.S. History, 1961 1969

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