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Buttons
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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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Fulbright for President
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J. William Fulbright was a Democratic Senator from Arkansas from 1945 until his resignation in 1974 and the longest serving Chair off the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Fulbright was a multilateralist who advocated for the creation of the United Nations and opposed McCarthyism and the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. Yet, he was also a segregationist and signed a revised version of the “Southern Manifesto,” a political document opposing the Brown v. Board of Education decision. He also participated in the Senate filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act and voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act, though he voted for a 5-year extension of the Voting Rights Act in 1970. He also played a leading role in opposing Richard Nixon’s attempts to appoint southern conservatives, Clement Haynsworth and Harold Carswell, to the Supreme Court, both of whom were seen as hostile to labor and civil rights. As Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Fulbright was politically positioned to play an important role in the evolving U.S. policy in Vietnam. While he initially sponsored and voted for the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving President Lyndon Johnson broad and unlimited power to escalate war in Vietnam, Fulbright later became an ardent critic of American policy there. In his 1966 book, The Arrogance of Power, Fulbright attacked the justification of the Vietnam War, Congress's failure to set limits on it, and the impulses which gave rise to it. Fulbright’s criticisms severely undermined the elite consensus on the war and won him growing support among the anti-war movement. In 1968, prior to Lyndon B. Johnson’s withdrawal from reelection, antiwar activists pressed alternative candidates for president, among them a Robert F. Kennedy-Fulbright ticket.
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Citizens for Kennedy-Fulbright
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Roz Payne
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Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Button
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Physical Object
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Electoral Politics
Date
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ca. 1967- 68
1964 Civil Rights Act
1965 Voting Rights Act
Anti-War
Arrogance of Power
Brown v. Board of Education
Civil Rights
Clement Haynsworth
electoral politics
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Harold Carswell
HUAC
J. William Fulbright
LBJ
McCarthyism
Robert F. Kennedy
segregationist
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Southern Manifesto
Vietnam War