26 June '94 / International Lesbian & Gay March [pinback button]
Hampton, CT: Donnelly/Colt Custom Printing, 1994. 1.75 inch pin with UN emblem over pink triangle, very good. Issued for the demonstration at the UN in New York. More
Cat.No: 186671
Political Buttons
A selection from our holdings of political, feminist, LGBT and ethnic movement pinback buttons.
Abortion is a personal decision [pinback button with outline map of Texas]
Philadelphia: Horn Co., [197-]. 1.5 inch diameter pin, red text and map on white field, very good. More
Cat.No: 207338
Action = Life [pinback button]
San Francisco: Act Up / San Francisco, [199-]. 1.75 inch pin with pink triangle and slogan in white on black background. This pin was meant to contrast with the "Silence = Death" pin in similar format that ACT UP also issued. More
Cat.No: 212506
Action = Life [pinback button]
Los Angeles: ACT UP / LA; manufactured by Donnelly/Colt, 1989. 1.75 inch pin with pink triangle and slogan in black on a white background. This pin was meant to contrast with the "Silence = Death" pin in similar format that ACT UP also issued. More
Cat.No: 214023
Anti-Bakke Decision Coalition / Smash Bakke / Demonstrate! / Nationwide Spring Offensive [pinback button]
San Jose, CA: the Coalition; mfg. by Ho-Sale Ent. [197-]. 1.75-inch diameter pin, black design on red background. Very good. More
Cat.No: 203695
Artists for AIDS Support [pinback button]
n.p. AFAS, [198-?]. 2.25 inch diameter pin, very good. We find media citations of this group from 1988. More
Cat.No: 212507
Black control of the black community / Vote Socialist Workers [pinback button]
n.p. [Socialist Workers Party], [1968]. 1.5 inch diameter pin, profile of a Black man with the text in white behind his face. More
Cat.No: 207177
Bring peace to Vietnam / Support the National Liberation Front [pinback button]
n.p. [196-]. 1.5 inch diameter pin, blue and red text on white background, with waving banner of the NLF ("Viet Cong"). More
Cat.No: 207498
Carnales Unidos [pinback button]
[East Bay, CA]: [Robert Rush], [197-]. 1.5 inch diameter pin, clasping hands on yellow field, very good. Produced by California pinmaker Robert Rush, who also produced UFW pins, for sale by Chicano activists. More
Cat.No: 204534
Chengren Zhongguo [pinback button with Chinese slogan, meaning "Recognize China"]
San Francisco: Star Engraving, [197-]. 1.5 inch diameter pin, black text on yellow field field. Undated, but issued prior to the 1978 diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China. More
Cat.No: 209792
Demonstrate / Abolish abortion laws / March 28 [pinback button]
[New York]: n.pub. [1970]. 1.5 inch pin, very good, white and black text on red background. This demonstration, organized by People to Abolish Abortion Laws, is believed to have been the first mass protest action in the US calling for free abortion on demand. More
Cat.No: 186493
End Apartheid! [pinback button]
[New York]: YCL [Young Communist League], [198-]. Pinback Button. 2x3 inch rectangular pin with an iconic image from Soweto; very good. YCL initials over the curl. More
Cat.No: 206848
Faslane Come-all-ye / 1965 [pinback button]
[Scotland]: 1965. One-inch-diameter pin with peace sign, purple design on white field, very good. Faslane, the naval base in Scotland, has been the site of anti-nuclear protests for decades. More
Cat.No: 206261
[Five pinback buttons opposing Proposition 64, the LaRouche Initiative to quarantine AIDS patients]
[San Francisco]: Labor Task Force, et al, [1986]. Five pins opposing the initiative, including one linking it to Prop. 63 (English only) as two examples of bigotry to be resisted. Largest pin is 2.25 inches. More
Cat.No: 212169
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Florida citrus [crossed out]. [pinback button]
San Francisco: SF Design Group, 1977. Pinback Button. 1.5 inch button, picture of an orange with a red slash through it, text in black. Issued during a boycott occasioned by the Florida citrus industry's use of anti-gay activist Anita Bryant as a spokeswoman. More
Cat.No: 177450
Free all Latin American Political Prisoners / USLA [pinback button]
n.p. USLA, n.d. 2 inch diameter pin with drawing of a man whose mouth is chained shut with a padlock. Early 1970s. The hilariously titled US Senate report, "Trotskyite Terrorist International," notes that the USLA was a front of the Socialist Workers Party. More
Cat.No: 180238
Free all Political Prisoners (pinback button)
[Berkeley]: [Robert Rush], [196-?]. 1.75 inch diameter pin, very good, with design by Lisa Lyons depicting panther emerging from behind bars; tiny union bug on edge of reverse. Attractive example of the original pin manufactured by Robert Rush and authenticated by him. More
Cat.No: 147464
Free Gary Lawton [pinback button]
n.p. [1974]. 1.25 inch diameter pin, white text on black field, very good. Lawton, a Black member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, was arrested in Riverside, CA on charges of killing police. More
Cat.No: 204548
Free Mooney and Billings / Labor's Martyrs [pinback button]
San Francisco: Walter N. Brunt, n.d. One inch diameter pin, very good, with portraits of Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings, in prison for the Preparedness Day bombing (both pardoned many years later). Paper insert on back of pin advertises the services of the printer in San Francisco, producer of..... More
Cat.No: 196918
Free political prisoners in Iran [pinback button]
[New York]: Committee in Solidarity with the People of Iran, [198-]. 2.5 inch diameter pin, dove over barred map of Iran. More
Cat.No: 206856
Free Soviet Jews [pinback button]
n.p. n.d. 1.75 inch diameter pin, small Star of David imprisoned within a larger red star. More
Cat.No: 207271
Free the Young Muslims / Baton Rouge, LA [pinback button]
Baton Rouge: n.pub. [1972]. 1.5 inch diameter pin, very good. In early 1972, gunfire erupted between Black Muslim demonstrators and police in Baton Rouge, resulting in two deaths on each side. Seven young men were arrested in the case, but they denied their group was involved, and reports of the..... More
Cat.No: 204517
From Greenham Common to Livermore [pinback button]
Berkeley: Livermore Action Group, 1983. 1.75 inch diameter pin, dancing women / birds motif. Greenham was a women's peace camp set up in Berkshire in the early 1980s. Its slogan, "Greenham women are everywhere," conveyed the activism of its members in fields ranging from feminist struggles to the anti-nuclear movement.This..... More
Cat.No: 185072
[Group of eight pinback buttons in support of the Equal Rights Amendment]
various issuers, 1975-1981. A small collection of pins, from a Socialist Workers Party activist, three of them issued by the SWP, plus a UAW support pin, a Pennsylvania pin, and three more. Largest is three inches in diameter. More
Cat.No: 208063
Humanity Legion / Aid to China / California Rice Bowl Party / 1941 (pinback button)
n.p. 1941. Pinback Button. 1.25 inch diameter button, very good condition. Depicts US and Nationalist Chinese flags bound together. A series of these pins were issued with various years of issue, as part of a fundraising effort to defend China from Japan's invasion. More
Cat.No: 132273