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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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Hands off Latin America
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This button addresses U.S. foreign policy in Latin America during the 1980s, when the Reagan Administration backed a series of right-wing regimes across the region.
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Hands off Latin America
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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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Latin America
Date
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ca-1980s
anti-imperialism
Latin America
Reagan Era
Ronald Reagan
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This collection contains a small number of physical objects, including a National Liberation Front flag, a fake check depicting the burning of the Bank of America branch in Isla Vista, an admission pass to Woodstock, an anti-war necklace made from the shrapnel of a downed U.S. military airplane in North Vietnam, a pop art necklace made from soda bottle caps, and folk singer Malvina Reynolds' guitar. Most notable, perhaps, is a lengthy homemade book created by Roz Payne and a number of other radical feminists.
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FSLN Flag
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Anti-Colonialism
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The Sandinista National Liberation Front is a Democratic Socialist political party and movement in Nicaragua named after Augusto Cesar Sandino, who led the opposition struggle against the U.S. occupation of Nicaragua in the 1930s. When the Sandinistas took power in the late-1970s, the United States, particularly the administration of Ronald Reagan, worked to undermine the regime as a part of a broader military interventionist policy against Latin America in the 1980s. The Reagan Administration funded and helped train the Contras, which sought to disrupt economic development and social programs in Nicaragua and overthrow the Sandinistas. After the U.S. Congress outlawed arms sales to the Contras, the Reagan Administration illegally continued the funding, resulting in the largest of many scandals during the Reagan years.
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FSLN
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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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ca. 1980s
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flag
anti-colonialism
anti-imperialism
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Contras
interventionism
Iran-Contra Scandal
militarism
Nicaragua
Reagan Era
Ronald Reagan
Sandinistas