button, 504 with hands
date: label: date made
content: n.d.
name: label: maker
content: unknown
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 about protecting Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Before the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 provided the core of legal protection for most people with disabilities. Disability activists organized protests and sit-ins to pressure the government into signing the regulations needed to implement the law. Joseph A. Califano, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare signed the regulations in 1977.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Disabilities
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: 2004.3062.15
label: nonaccession number
content: 2004.3062
label: catalog number
content: 2004.3062.15
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
label: Object Name
content: pin
label: Object Name
content: disability awareness
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 11/16 in x 2 3/8 in x 7/16 in; 4.28625 cm x 6.0325 cm x 1.11125 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in x 1 5/8 in; .9525 cm x 6.0325 cm x 4.1275 cm