"Behind Every Great Man, There's a Dingbat" button
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content: Satirical political campaign button printed with slogan "Behind Every Great Man, There's a Dingbat" and a photograph of Edith Bunker, portrayed by Jean Stapleton. The button references a signature insult levied by Archie Bunker on the television program <i>All in the Family</i>. This button was owned by Stapleton.
label: Description
content: <i>All in the Family</i> was a CBS television series created and produced by Norman Lear. The sitcom was popular throughout its 1971-1979 run and was lauded for its exploration of social and political issues of the 1970s, what Lear called “real people dealing with real issues.” The show told the story of the Bunker family, a white working-class family from Queens, New York. Archie, the stubborn and socially-conservative patriarch, often clashed with his wife, the sweet, naïve Edith, his feminist daughter Gloria, and her liberal husband Michael. Archie’s living room chair became the family’s meeting place for heated debates about a plethora of issues dividing America – women’s rights, racism, homosexuality, the Vietnam War, and the generational divide between Baby Boomers and the World War II generation.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: LGBTQ Rights
label: Subject
content: LGBTQ
label: Subject
content: Gay Rights
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0150.24
label: accession number
content: 2017.0150
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0150.24
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
label: Object Name
content: pin
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in; 8.89 cm