Pinback Button, "Keep Hope Alive!"
Object Details
- Medium
- metal, plastic, paper
- Dimensions
- 5/16 × 2 3/16 in. (0.8 × 5.6 cm)
- Cite As
- Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Gift of Vernice D. Miller-Travis
- Caption
- This round pinback button supporting the Democratic Party commemorates Jesse Jackson's "Keep Hope Alive" speech, delivered at the party's National Convention in 1988. The pin features a black and white photographic portrait of five smiling boys. Above them, yellow lettering reads "Keep Hope Alive!", and below, in red against a yellow background, "Register – Vote for the Democrats". At the bottom, Jesse Jackson's signature is almost illegible.
- The button is among more than 200 collected by Washington, DC-based environmental justice advocate Vernice Miller-Travis.
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- Accession Number
- 2022.13.46
- Type
- pinback button
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- Anacostia Community Museum Collection
- Data Source
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Record ID
- acm_2022.13.46