Puerto Rican Solidarity Committee / Free Puerto Rico! [pinback button]
New York: the Committee; printed by NG Slater, [197-]. 1.75 inch diameter pin, flag motif. More
Cat.No: 202683
A selection from our holdings of political, feminist, LGBT and ethnic movement pinback buttons.
New York: the Committee; printed by NG Slater, [197-]. 1.75 inch diameter pin, flag motif. More
Cat.No: 202683
n.p. n.d. 1.25 inch diameter pin, drawing of a rat crossed out. More
Cat.No: 207337
n.p. [196-]. Pinback Button. 1.25 inch diameter pin, white text on black background, minor wear. Union bug on edge. A byword of the Black Power movement. More
Cat.No: 202060
n.p. The Land Loss Fund, n.d. 2.25 inch diameter pin, silhouette of farmer with horse and plow. More
Cat.No: 207799
Mongtgomery, AL: the Campaign, 1968, 1972. Seven different pins, one with Alabama headquarters info on the edge; generally very good. More
Cat.No: 204275
[Berkeley]: n.d. 1.5 inch diameter pin, two words horizontal enclosed in broken chains, red background; union bug on edge. More
Cat.No: 132084
Santa Cruz: Paz Buttons, [198-]. 1.5 inch diameter wooden disk with design featuring two women embracing under the Vietnamese flag with a dove flying overhead, pin affixed to reverse, very good. More
Cat.No: 191893
Los Angeles: ACT UP / LA; manufactured by Donnelly/Colt, 1989. 1.75 inch pin with pink and white text on a black background, very good. More
Cat.No: 214025
n.p. [198-]. 2x2 inch square pin with Shell emblem modified to resemble a stop sign. Also included are a 1983 Donnelly/Colt Abolish Apartheid pin and an anonymously produced, lightly scratched Stop Apartheid pin. More
Cat.No: 209825
[East Bay, CA]: n.pub. [1972?]. 1.5 inch diameter pin, portrait of Smith in uniform, very good. Smith was eventually acquitted of fragging two white officers in Vietnam. More
Cat.No: 204495
Philadelphia: Horn Co., [197-]. Large four-inch diameter pin with text of the proposed amendment; red text on white background, minor scuffing. More
Cat.No: 202538
[New York]: Tao Chu Kwang Society, [1965]. One inch diameter pin, yellow field, bearing the name of John Birch's assassin. A 1965 classified ad in The Nation reads "JOHN BIRCH, southern racist shot in 1945 by a Chinese guerrilla leader, is a reactionary hero. That guerrilla leader- TAO CHU KWANG-..... More
Cat.No: 204568
n.p. n.d. Three pins featuring peace signs, one black, one red, and the third (a bit larger at 1.25 inches diameter) with a peace sign overlaid on a US flag. These are relatively early, with long stick pins on the reverse rather than the safer fastenable pins that came in..... More
Cat.No: 202416
New York: PONY; JACGUAR, n.d. Three pins, each 2.25 inches in diameter, including a pictorial pin from PONY: Prostitutes of New York (founded in 1976 by Jean Powell; depicts a nude purple woman wielding a phallic lance on horseback); Johns and Call Girls United Against Repression: JACGUAR; and a pin..... More
Cat.No: 209842
Rochester; Boston: Bastian Bros; Universal Badge Co., [194-]. Two 1-inch diameter pins, "Greek war relief / I helped / Help Greece now" (Bastian Bros) and "Help Greece," the former showing a mother and child, the latter depicting a man blowing a trumpet on a mountain peak. More
Cat.No: 202840
n.p. [1965]. two pins, each 1 inch in diameter; one says "Watts Cooking / We Want Work," the other simply "Burn Baby Burn" with flames in the background. Very good. More
Cat.No: 204500
[East Bay]: [1974?]. Pinback Button. 1.5 inch diameter pin, bilingual text and artwork depicting seamstresses with a sewing machine, orange background. Very good; manufactured by East Bay pinmaker Robert Rush (though not identified as such on the pin). GCA was the Great Chinese American Sewing Company, known in Cantonese as..... More
Cat.No: 204511
[East Bay, CA]: [Robert Rush], n.d. 1.5 inch diameter pin with rifle and name of the organization, very good. Manufactured by Robert Rush for the group that split from the Revolutionary Union because it sought more urgent armed action; its most famous member was former Stanford professor H. Bruce Franklin..... More
Cat.No: 204494
n.p. n.d. Rectangular pin in the shape of the Viet Cong flag, 2.25 inches long. More
Cat.No: 207503
San Francisco: Du Bois Clubs; mfg. by Star Engraving, [196-]. Pinback Button. 1.25 inch diameter button, Club emblem of black and white hands lifting a dove. The Du Bois Clubs were the youth affiliate of the Communist Party. More
Cat.No: 207489
New York: UUU, n.d. 1.25 and 1.5-inch buttons, very good. The one with a British denomination has a distinctive reverse and may indeed be from the UK. More
Cat.No: 206252
[East Bay, CA]: [197-]. 1.75 inch diameter pin, very good, depicting women protesters. More
Cat.No: 204566
[California]: Peace and Freedom Party, n.d. 2.25-inch diameter pin, red and black sticker applied to a blank white button base, no laminate layer covering it (so paper mildly worn); issued by the socialist, feminist third party based in California. More
Cat.No: 204520
[East Bay, CA]: [197-]. 1.5-inch diameter button, design shows the Statue of Liberty with fist forward, red background, a lovely example. More
Cat.No: 204561
San Francisco: Star Engraving, [196-]. 1.5 inch diameter pin, very good, red text around black and white portrait. More
Cat.No: 204789