Object Details
- Date
- 1984
- Medium
- paper, plastic, metal
- Dimensions
- 5/16 × 2 15/16 in. (0.8 × 7.5 cm)
- Cite As
- Ethel Lois Payne Collection, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Gift of Avis R. Johnson.
- Caption
- This pinback button supported Rev. Jesse L. Jackson’s historic run for president in 1983-1984. Jackson broke ground first trod by Shirley Chisolm, becoming the second African American to seek a major party’s nomination in a presidential primary. The button features a color photo of Jackson, who campaigned nationally for the nomination again in 1988. Made in Washington, DC, the button belonged to journalist Ethel L. Payne (1911-1991), a Chicago native who moved to the District in 1952 to cover national and international news for the preeminent African American newspaper, The Chicago Defender. A lifelong civil rights activist, Payne reported from thirty countries over the course of her own pioneering career, becoming known as the First Lady of the Black Press.
- Accession Number
- 1991.0076.0147
- Type
- button
- See more items in
- Anacostia Community Museum Collection
- Data Source
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Record ID
- acm_1991.0076.0147
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