Pinback button for the Scottsboro United Front Defense
date: label: Date
content: 1931-1932
name: label: Manufactured by
content: Eagle Regalia Company, American, founded 1910
label: Subject of
content: Scottsboro Boys, American, 1931 - 1989
label: Subject of
content: International Labor Defense, American, 1925 - 1946
notes: label: Description
content: Small circular pinback button with black text on an off-white background. At the center of the button is the message "I Gave to Save the Scottsboro Boys" with the union label of the Allied Printing Trades Council fo Baltimore. The folowing text surrounds the outer rim of the button: "Negro & White Workers Unite!"/"Scottsboro United Front Defense".
label: Transcription Center Status
content: Transcribed by digital volunteers
place: label: Place made
content: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
label: Place printed
content: Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Civil Rights
label: Topic
content: Justice
label: Topic
content: Labor
label: Topic
content: Race relations
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: Anti-Lynching Movement
label: Exhibition
content: Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation, 1876-1968
label: On View
content: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Concourse 2, C 2053
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2012.46.35
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: plastic and metal
label: Dimensions
content: Diameter: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm)