Object Details
- Manufactured by
- Eagle Regalia Company, American, founded 1910
- Subject of
- Scottsboro Boys, American, 1931 - 1989
- International Labor Defense, American, 1925 - 1946
- Description
- Small circular pinback button with black text on an off-white background. At the center of the button is the message "I Gave to Save the Scottsboro Boys" with the union label of the Allied Printing Trades Council fo Baltimore. The folowing text surrounds the outer rim of the button: "Negro & White Workers Unite!"/"Scottsboro United Front Defense".
- Transcription Center Status
- Transcribed by digital volunteers
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- 1931-1932
- Object number
- 2012.46.35
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium
- plastic and metal
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm)
- Place made
- New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Place printed
- Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Memorabilia and Ephemera - Political and Activist Ephemera
- Movement
- Anti-Lynching Movement
- Exhibition
- Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation, 1876-1968
- On View
- NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Concourse 2, C 2053
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- Civil Rights
- Justice
- Labor
- Race relations
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2012.46.35
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5a3404f22-1756-474c-b4b7-7c784e6d5549
