button, Sign 504, Handicapped Human Rights, ACCD
date: label: date made
content: n.d.
name: label: maker
content: N. G. Slater Corp.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Pin-back buttons serve many purposes. They are efficient advertising vehicles, handy for fund-raising in support of a cause, concise statements of a person’s beliefs, a form of educational outreach, and convenient ice-breakers for conversation. NMAH has several hundred pin-back buttons related to disability, including this one created by ACCD, the American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities. Before the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 provided the core of legal protection for most people with disabilities. Disability activists organized protests and sit-ins to pressure the government into signing the regulations needed to implement the law. Joseph A. Califano, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare signed the regulations in 1977.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Disabilities
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Disabilities
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Carr Massi
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0263.18
label: accession number
content: 1999.0263
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0263.18
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
label: Object Name
content: disability awareness
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 3 in; .635 cm x 7.62 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 3 in x 5/16 in; 7.62 cm x 7.62 cm x .79375 cm