Button, March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom
date: label: associated date
content: 1963 08 28
notes: label: Description
content: Button "March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom August 28, 1963"around a design of black and white hands shaking. 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
place: label: associated place
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
label: associated place
content: United States: District of Columbia, National Mall, Lincoln Memorial
topic: label: Subject
content: African American History
label: Subject
content: Civil Rights Movement
label: general subject association
content: History, Reform Movements, Black, Civil Rights
label: related event
content: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, Reform Movements Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Sweatshops
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Miss Virginia Beets
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.250459.02
label: catalog number
content: 250459.02
label: accession number
content: 250459
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: black, white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in; x 8.89 cm