"Greenpeace" Button
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Object Details
- Description
- Beginning in 1971, with a dramatic, nonviolent protest of an underground nuclear weapons test on Alaska’s small Aleutian island of Amchitka, Greenpeace grew into one of the world’s largest environmental membership organizations. As symbolized by this button from the late 20th century, Greenpeace embraced direct-action tactics in its campaigns to address challenges like overfishing, commercial whaling, deforestation, genetic engineering, and climate change.
- The button is among the more than 1,500 pin-backed environmental buttons that Gerald H. Meral donated to the National Museum of American History. Meral spent his career addressing natural resource concerns for the California state government and California-based non-governmental organizations. He began assembling his button collection in 1970.
- ID Number
- 2003.0014.1161
- accession number
- 2003.0014
- catalog number
- 2003.0014.1161
- Object Name
- button
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 4.4 cm x 3 cm x .7 cm; 1 23/32 in x 1 3/16 in x 9/32 in
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- Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Health & Medicine
- American Enterprise
- Environmental Buttons
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Environmental Movement
- Record ID
- nmah_1284663
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-8db5-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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