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Buttons
Description
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Buttons were one of the most popular and pervasive forms of political messaging during the 1960s, combining brief messaging and memorable graphic designs. Buttons were inexpensive to produce on a mass basis and easy to distribute. They afforded any individual an opportunity to voice their opinions and, potentially, reach a broad audience. As Hunter Oatman-Stanford has written, “From discreet lapel pins to oversized buttons on purses or backpacks, pinbacks invite conversation by declaring potentially controversial viewpoints to complete strangers.” In this way, buttons were (and still are) a particularly democratic form of political propaganda.
As button collector, John Aisthorpe, has put it, buttons offer “a little snapshot of history.” During the 1960s, buttons were vital to the visual identity of a range of movements. “There were many protest groups who put their views on buttons,” Aisthorpe recalls, “from the early ’60s with the Free Speech Movement (FSM) to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and, later, the Veterans for Peace, the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, and the Yippies.” The political impact of buttons in the 1960s is hard to gauge, though their popularity suggests some modicum of significance. And, as Aisthorpe has asserted, “It’s hard to say what impact they had, but the text of buttons worn at protests were often used as antiwar chants, like ‘Hell no, we won’t go!’… They must have had some effect.” The buttons of the 1960s have remained some of the most enduring relics from this important past.
This collection includes buttons from a wide array of movements from the Sixties, including the student movement, civil rights and Black Power movements, women's liberation, environmentalism, the anti-nuclear movement, gay liberation, electoral politics, the Chicano movement, the labor movement and the counterculture, with a strong emphasis on the anti-war movement. In addition, a few buttons date from Roz Payne’s activist efforts in the 1970s and 1980s, including the early political campaigns of Vermont politician, Bernie Sanders.
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Free Nelson Mandela ANC (S.A.)
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Created in 1980, this button represents a renewed international anti-Apartheid movement that picked up steam over the course of the eighties. The campaign pressed for "divestment" from the South African economy and demanded the release of South African political prisoners, particularly Nelson Mandela, leader of the African National Congress (ANC), the chief opposition party. Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 for his anti-Apartheid activism and became a national and international symbol of the injustice and brutality of the racist South African regime. Ultimately, Mandela was released from prison in 1990, the African National Congress (ANC) and other opposition parties were allowed to participate in the political system and the nation's first multi-racial election took place in 1994, when Nelson Mandela was elected President of a new, post-Apartheid South Africa.
New Left organizations, including the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), had protested against the Apartheid regime in South Africa since the early and mid-Sixties.
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African National Congress
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Roz Payne
Publisher
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Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Format
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Button
Type
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Physical Object
Subject
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Anti-Apartheid Movement
Date
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1980
African National Congress
ANC
Anti-Apartheid
anti-imperialism
Apartheid
Nelson Mandela
New Left
politics
Prisoner's Rights Movement
protest
Racial Justice
SDS
solidarity
South Africa
Students for a Democratic Society
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Buttons
Description
An account of the resource
Buttons were one of the most popular and pervasive forms of political messaging during the 1960s, combining brief messaging and memorable graphic designs. Buttons were inexpensive to produce on a mass basis and easy to distribute. They afforded any individual an opportunity to voice their opinions and, potentially, reach a broad audience. As Hunter Oatman-Stanford has written, “From discreet lapel pins to oversized buttons on purses or backpacks, pinbacks invite conversation by declaring potentially controversial viewpoints to complete strangers.” In this way, buttons were (and still are) a particularly democratic form of political propaganda.
As button collector, John Aisthorpe, has put it, buttons offer “a little snapshot of history.” During the 1960s, buttons were vital to the visual identity of a range of movements. “There were many protest groups who put their views on buttons,” Aisthorpe recalls, “from the early ’60s with the Free Speech Movement (FSM) to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and, later, the Veterans for Peace, the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, and the Yippies.” The political impact of buttons in the 1960s is hard to gauge, though their popularity suggests some modicum of significance. And, as Aisthorpe has asserted, “It’s hard to say what impact they had, but the text of buttons worn at protests were often used as antiwar chants, like ‘Hell no, we won’t go!’… They must have had some effect.” The buttons of the 1960s have remained some of the most enduring relics from this important past.
This collection includes buttons from a wide array of movements from the Sixties, including the student movement, civil rights and Black Power movements, women's liberation, environmentalism, the anti-nuclear movement, gay liberation, electoral politics, the Chicano movement, the labor movement and the counterculture, with a strong emphasis on the anti-war movement. In addition, a few buttons date from Roz Payne’s activist efforts in the 1970s and 1980s, including the early political campaigns of Vermont politician, Bernie Sanders.
Physical Object
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Lawyers Against Apartheid
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Between the years 1986 and 1996, the London-based legal group, Lawyers Against Apartheid served as a legal counseling and aid service for anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, contesting the state legal system’s rulings. Comprised of legal scholars, lawyers, and student activists, the group also notably advocated for the revision of Prisoner of War status to include political prisoners and activists.
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Lawyers Against Apartheid
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Roz Payne
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Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Date
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1986
Format
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Button
Type
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Physical Object
Subject
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Anti-Apartheid Movement
Anti-Apartheid
Apartheid
Button
Lawyers Against Apartheid
Legal Justice
London
solidarity
South Africa
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Leaflets, Flyers, Broadsides and Article Reprints
Description
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The social movements of the Sixties produced hundreds of leaflets, flyers, broadsides and reprinted articles. These items were an important part of movement culture and another important organizing tool for activists and organizations. They were mimeographed and circulated widely at meetings, through the mail and by hand.
Text
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paper
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Creator
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Southern African Support Committee
Source
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Roz Payne
Date
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1985
Type
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flyer
Title
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South Africa Join the Protest Against Apartheid
Subject
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Anti-Apartheid Movement
Description
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This flyer publicizes a protest rally in Martin Luther King, Jr. Park in Los Angeles to commemorate the 9th anniversary of the 1976 Soweto Uprisings in South Africa. The anti-Apartheid movement in the U.S. sought to compel American corporations to "divest" from South Africa.
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Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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photocopy
Anti-Apartheid
Apartheid
California
Los Angeles
Martin Luther King Jr.
Racial Justice
South Africa
Southern African Support Committee
Soweto