Museum Collections
Luce Center
Button
Object Number:
2002.70.17
Date:
1971
Medium:
Metal, plastic
Dimensions:
diameter: 1 3/4 in. ( 4.4 cm )
Marks:
printed: on side of button: "N.G. SLATER CORP. NYC 11"
Description:
Circular pin-back button; "Her Fight is our Fight/FREE Angela Davis"; in center is portrait of Davis; orange and black.
Gallery Label:
This button was part of a movement advocating the release of Angela Davis, a Communist and radical civil rights activist, from jail in 1970.
Credit Line:
Gift of Beatrice J. Siegel
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.