Pinback button for a Freedom Ride organized by CORE
Object Details
- Description
- A small, circular, blue and white pinback button featuring the text [ FREEDOM RIDE / CORE ].
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Dawn Simon Spears and Alvin Spears, Sr.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Date
- 1961
- Object number
- 2011.159.3.25
- Issued by
- Congress of Racial Equality, American, founded 1942
- Manufactured by
- Unidentified
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
- Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium
- metal and plastic
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm)
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Memorabilia and Ephemera - Political and Activist Ephemera
- Movement
- Civil Rights 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
- Topic
- African American
- Civil Rights
- U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2011.159.3.25
