MADD Baseball Cap
notes: label: Description
content: This white baseball cap has a red bill and a red button in center crown. The hat’s crown bears black text around a red anthropomorphized car stitched into the crown. The text reads “Designate a Driver, MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Drivers.” The side of the hat reads “Discount Tire Co." in red stitching.
label: Description
content: Candace Lightner founded Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD), a citizens’ movement to fight leniency and indifference toward drinking after a driver who had been drinking killed her daughter Cari in 1980. These initiatives led to new state laws holding intoxicated drivers accountable. New sobriety checkpoints, designated driver programs, and federal legislation raising the minimum drinking age to 21 kept intoxicated drivers off the road. Since its inception, MADD has been instrumental in lowering the highway fatality count due to driving while intoxicated.
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content: Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
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content: America on the Move
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content: Transportation
label: Exhibition
content: America On The Move
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sharon Sikora
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.0266.04
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content: 2011.0266.04
label: accession number
content: 2011.0266
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cap
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white; red (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: cap: 6 in x 7 3/4 in; 15.24 cm x 19.685 cm
label: Measurements
content: bill: 7 in x 4 1/2 in; x 17.78 cm x 11.43 cm