Pinback button for the Milwaukee 14
date: label: Date
content: 1968
name: label: Manufactured by
content: Unidentified
notes: label: Caption
content: On September 24, 1968 fourteen Vietnam Protestors took approximately 10,000 draft files from Milwaukee's draft boards and publicly burned them in honor of American soldiers.
label: Description
content: A pinback button advocating for the Milwaukee 14. The background of the button is white. Red text throughout reads [Milwaukee 14]. The back of the button has a metal pin without a clasp.
place: label: Place depicted
content: Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: Justice
label: Topic
content: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of T. Rasul Murray
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2013.68.125
objectType: label: Type
content: buttons (information artifacts)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Publci domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper with metal and plastic
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 1 5/16 × 1 5/16 × 3/16 in. (3.3 × 3.3 × 0.5 cm)