Pinback button reading “Black Folk Must Vote”
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1965
name: label: Manufactured by
content: N.G. Slater Corporation, American, founded 1936
label: Subject of
content: AFL-CIO Local 64 Union
notes: label: Description
content: A pinback button with a white background and black sanserif type face text reading [BLACK FOLK / MUST / VOTE]. The printed words [AG Slater Corp NYC 11] are printed along the perimeter and at the bottom center is a red Union bug [AFL-CIO / – / LOCAL 64] encircled, [UNION MADE] below. The back has a straight pin. The laminate is slightly yellowed from age. There are some scratches on the surface and tarnish on the back.
place: label: Place made
content: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Civil Rights
label: Topic
content: Politics
label: Topic
content: Race discrimination
label: Topic
content: Social reform
label: Topic
content: Suffrage
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Memorabilia and Ephemera - Political and Activist Ephemera
label: Movement
content: Civil Rights Movement
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Kenneth A. Smaltz Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2021.78
objectType: label: Type
content: buttons (information artifacts)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper with plastic laminate and metal
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 1 9/16 × 1 9/16 × 3/16 in. (4 × 4 × 0.5 cm)