button, Free Our People
date: label: date made
content: n.d.
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: NMAH has several hundred pin-back buttons related to disability, including this one from ADAPT. ADAPT is a grass-roots activist organization founded in Denver, Colorado in 1983. “Free Our People” expresses their belief that people with disabilities should be able to live in the community rather than in nursing homes or institutions. The man is the Rev. Wade Blank, a civil rights activist and the founder of ADAPT. Blank became a disability activist after working as an orderly in a nursing home where he witnessed the mistreatment and poor care of people with disabilities.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Disabilities
label: Subject
content: Protest and Civil Disobedience
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 Janine Kemp Bertram
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.3062.14
label: nonaccession number
content: 2004.3062
label: catalog number
content: 2004.3062.14
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pin
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: 2 3/16 in x 2 3/16 in x 5/16 in; 5.55625 cm x 5.55625 cm x .79375 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; .635 cm x 5.715 cm