Button, Equal Rights in '63
date: label: date made
content: 1963
label: associated date
content: 1963
notes: label: Description
content: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty (1963–68) had a major impact on the racial and ethnic composition of the workforce. Increasingly many individuals found fewer racial barriers to higher-paying manufacturing and white-collar jobs. Rather than falling victim to laboring in apparel sweatshops, some workers turned to alternatives in the service industries or even public assistance.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: general subject association
content: Civil Rights Movement
label: Subject
content: Protest and Civil Disobedience
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, General History Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0486.021
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0486.21
label: accession number
content: 1989.0486
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: red, white, blue (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in; x 3.175 cm