Pinback Button, Jesse Jackson Presidential Campaign
Object Details
- Date
- 1984
- Medium
- metal, plastic, paper
- Dimensions
- 5/16 × 2 1/4 in. (0.8 × 5.7 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 run nationally for a major party’s nomination in a presidential primary. The button features a color photo of Jackson, who campaigned nationally for the Democratic nomination again in the 1988 presidential contest. Inscribed with the candidate’s last name and year in gold metallic pen, the button belonged to journalist Ethel L. Payne (1911-1991), a Chicago native who moved to the nation’s capital in 1952 to cover national and international news for the preeminent African American newspaper, The Chicago Defender. The lifelong civil rights activist reported from thirty countries over the course of her own pioneering career, becoming known as the First Lady of the Black Press.
- Accession Number
- 1991.0076.0156
- Type
- button
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- Anacostia Community Museum Collection
- Data Source
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Record ID
- acm_1991.0076.0156
