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Pinback button for the Scottsboro United Front Defense

1931-1932

New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Small circular pinback button with black text on an off-white background. At the center of the button is the message "I Gave to Save the Scottsboro Boys" with the union label of the Allied Printing Trades Council fo Baltimore. The folowing text surrounds the outer rim of the button: "Negro & White Workers Unite!"/"Scottsboro United Front Defense".

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Catalog reference: 2012.46.35

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