button, Mi CASSA, Campaign for "Real" Choice
date: label: date made
content: n.d.
name: label: maker
content: Badge-A-Minit
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 ADAPT. ADAPT is a grass-roots activist organization founded in Denver in 1983. “Campaign for Choice,” refers to their belief that people with disabilities should be able to live in the community rather than in nursing homes or institutions. The image of the wheelchair-user with broken chains illustrates freeing people from the shackles of confinement. “Mi Cassa,” is Spanish for “my home” and the slogan for this movement.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Disabilities
label: Subject
content: Protest and Civil Disobedience
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Disabilities
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0130.09
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0130.09
label: accession number
content: 2010.0130
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: 3/8 in x 2 1/4 in; .9525 cm x 5.715 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 5/16 in x 2 5/16 in x 3/8 in; 5.87375 cm x 5.87375 cm x .9525 cm