hat
notes: label: Description
content: Michael Allen was a 27-year-old graduate student in philosophy at Boston University when he decorated this cotton bucket hat with protest buttons and wore it during the April-May 1977 demonstration against two proposed nuclear power plants in Seabrook, New Hampshire.
label: Description
content: The Seabrook demonstration organized by the Clamshell Alliance became a model for nonviolent, direct confrontations in the antinuclear movement in the United States. About two thousand demonstrators carried posters, chanted slogans, and sang protest songs, doing so in a disciplined, nonviolent manner. In a coordinated act of civil disobedience on April 30, demonstrators occupied the construction site. On May 2, 1977, acting on the orders of New Hampshire's governor, state police arrested 1,414 demonstrators for trespassing.
label: Description
content: National press coverage drew attention to the arguments opposing nuclear power and inspired nonviolent citizen protests against other nuclear plants.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Michael Allen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2022.0217.01
label: catalog number
content: 2022.0217.01
label: accession number
content: 2022.0217
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hat
label: Object Type
content: Hat
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: corduroy; plastic; metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 9 1/4 in x 11 in; 11.43 cm x 23.495 cm x 27.94 cm