Object Details
- Description
- The most basic right of citizenship has been equal access and protection under the law. The fight to extend this right to all began before the Declaration of Independence proclaimed “all men are created equal,” and continues today.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Timothy D. W. Connelly in memory of Gordon Montgomery Connelly
- 1968
- associated date
- 1968
- ID Number
- 2003.0317.039
- catalog number
- 2003.0317.039
- accession number
- 2003.0317
- Object Name
- Button
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- white; blue (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 in; x 5.08 cm
- associated place
- United States: District of Columbia
- See more items in
- Political History: Political History, Reform Movements Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
- National Museum of American History
- general subject association
- Civil Rights Movement
- depicted
- Poor Peoples Campaign
- related event
- Poor People's Campaign
- Record ID
- nmah_1250040
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-1d1c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
