Pinback Button, "We '8" Um Up"
date: label: Date
content: 1983
notes: label: Caption
content: This pinback button celebrates the election of Harold Washington, the first African American mayor of Chicago, in 1983. A diverse coalition of voters “punched eight” for Washington, the eighth candidate on the ballot in the primary. “We ‘8’ Um Up” playfully exults in victory. The white-and-blue button belonged to journalist Ethel L. Payne (1911-1991), a Chicago native who moved to Washington, DC in 1952 to cover national and international news for the preeminent African American newspaper, The Chicago Defender. She followed Washington’s mayoral campaign closely and collected pins that told the story: from grassroots campaign (1991.0076.0144) to victorious celebration (1991.0076.0172) to inauguration day (1991.0076.0170). Payne, a lifelong civil rights activist, reported from thirty countries over the course of her own pioneering career, becoming known as the First Lady of the Black Press.
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content: Anacostia Community Museum Collection
creditLine: label: Cite As
content: Ethel Lois Payne Collection, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Gift of Avis R. Johnson.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Anacostia Community Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1991.0076.0151
objectType: label: Type
content: pinback button
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: metal, plastic, paper
label: Dimensions
content: 3/8 × 2 15/16 in. (0.9 × 7.5 cm)