Pinback Button, "Peggy Shepard"
Object Details
- Medium
- metal, plastic, paper
- Dimensions
- 3/8 × 2 5/16 in. (1 × 5.9 cm)
- Cite As
- Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Gift of Vernice D. Miller-Travis
- Caption
- This round pinback button in white and teal expressed support for Peggy Shepard/s candidacy for a set on the New York City Council in 1991. Shepar, long-time activist and co-founder of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, lost the nomination in the Democratic primary on that year.
- The button is among more than 200 collected by Washington, DC-based environmental justice advocate Vernice Miller-Travis.
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- Accession Number
- 2022.13.34
- Type
- pinback button
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- Anacostia Community Museum Collection
- Data Source
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Record ID
- acm_2022.13.34
