Button declaring "Black is Beautiful"
Object Details
- Manufactured by
- Unidentified
- Description
- Button with a black background and a yellow stripe at center. On the yellow stripe the words "Black is Beautiful" appear in block letters.
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Dawn Simon Spears and Alvin Spears, Sr.
- 1960s - 1970s
- Object number
- 2011.159.3.11
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
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- Type
- buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium
- metal and plastic
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm)
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Memorabilia and Ephemera - Political and Activist Ephemera
- Movement
- Black is Beautiful
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- Activism
- Beauty culture
- Politics
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2011.159.3.11
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5bc424c19-2f70-4b8f-966f-5b072c913df4
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