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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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NLG v. FBI
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The National Lawyers Guild was formed in 1937 as a network of progressive lawyers interested in “human rights over property rights.” During the 1930s and 1940s, the NLG was involved in defending labor rights, fighting fascism in Spain and helping prosecute Nazis during the Nuremburg Trials. They also fought for racial justice and helped draft the U.N.’s Declaration on Human Rights. In the late-1940s and 1950s, the NLG pioneered storefront law offices for low-income people and defended many victims of the McCarthyite attacks on civil liberties, the Rosenbergs and Hollywood Ten.
According to the NLG website, “In the 1960s, the Guild set up offices in the South and organized thousands of volunteer lawyers and law students to support the civil rights movement long before the federal government or other bar associations were involved. Guild members represented the families of murdered civil rights activists Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman, who had heeded the Guild’s call to join the civil rights struggle and were assassinated by local law enforcement/Ku Klux Klan members.
Lawsuits initiated by the National Lawyers Guild brought the Kennedy Justice Department directly into the civil rights struggle in Mississippi and challenged the seating of the all-white Mississippi delegation at the 1964 Democratic Convention. Guild lawyers defended thousands of civil rights activists who were arrested for exercising basic rights and established new federal constitutional protections in groundbreaking Supreme Court cases such as Dombrowski v. Pfister, which enjoined thousands of racially motivated state court criminal prosecutions; Goldberg v. Kelly, the case that established the concept of “entitlements” to social benefits that require Due Process protections; and Monell v. Department of Social Services, which held municipalities liable for brutal police officers.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Guild members represented Vietnam War draft resisters, antiwar activists, and the Chicago 7 after the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention. Guild offices in Asia represented GIs who opposed the war. Guild members argued U.S. v. U.S. District Court, the Supreme Court case that established that Nixon could not ignore the Bill of Rights in the name of “national security” and that led to the Watergate hearings and his eventual resignation.
Guild members defended FBI-targeted members of the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, and the Puerto Rican independence movement and helped expose illegal FBI and CIA surveillance, infiltration, and disruption tactics that the U.S. Senate Church Commission detailed in the 1975-76 COINTELPRO hearings, which led to enactment of the Freedom of Information Act and other specific limitations on federal investigative power.” (https://nlgmass.org/nlg-national-history/)
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National Lawyers Guild
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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
Subject
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Civil Liberties and Legal Justice
Date
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late-1960s or early-1970s
and Goodman
Black Panther Party
Chaney
Chicago '68
Chicago 7
civil liberties
Civil Rights
COINTELPRO
Declaration on Human Right
fascism
FBI
Goldberg v. Kelly
Hollywood Ten
Ku Klux Klan
labor movement
McCarthyism
Monell v. Department of Social Services
National Lawyers Guild
Nazism
Nuremberg Trials
Poverty
Puerto Rican Independence
Racial Justice
Rosenbergs
Schwerner
SNCC
Spain
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Posters and Graphic Design
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The movements of the Sixties produced a rich history of political posters and other graphic arts. These posters were hung in political offices, bookstores, bedrooms and in public. The posters collected here include designs related to the anti-war movement, Black Power, women’s liberation, the Yippies, counterculture, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, anti-imperialism, the Cuban Revolution, environmentalism, Bernie Sanders’ elections for Burlington mayor, anti-communism, the labor movement, corporate inequality, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and other topics. Of particular note are a series of posters created by the OSPAAAL, the Organisation in Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America, the main publisher of international solidarity posters in Cuba.
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Roz Payne
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Stop the Klan in Vermont
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Anti-Racism
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This poster promotes an anti-Ku Klux Klan "speak-out" in Wilmington, Vermont, on May 15, 1982. According to a UPI article dated May 28, 1982, “In the first public appearance of Klansmen in Vermont since the 1920s, a 17-member delegation of the white supremacists donned their hooded robes on a ballfield and stood behind a human barrier of troopers as about 150 counter-demonstrators shouted violent anti-Klan slogans.” Two weeks later, the Klan rallied again in nearby Brattlesboro, Vermont. According to a New York Times article, dated May 31, 1982:
Two dozen white-robed members of the Ku Klux Klan paraded onto the town common in a steady drizzle Saturday for a recruitment drive, defying the anti-Klan feelings vented against them in a noisy protest two weeks ago.
About 150 spectators, some of them shouting ''Go home!'' stood behind a police line ringing the bandstand where the Klan members made speeches. State troopers trained in riot control and local law enforcement officers were also present.
On May 15, more than 150 anti-Klan protesters heckled 15 Klan members at a recruitment effort in Wilmington, 10 miles from here.
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unknown
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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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1982
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poster
anti-racism
Brattlesboro
Ku Klux Klan
Vermont
white supremacy
Wilmington