Object Details
- Description
- 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".
- Transcription Center Status
- Transcribed by digital volunteers
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Manufactured by
- Eagle Regalia Company, American, founded 1910
- Subject of
- Scottsboro Boys, American, 1931 - 1989
- International Labor Defense, American, 1925 - 1946
- Date
- 1931-1932
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Medium
- plastic and metal
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm)
- Type
- buttons (information artifacts)
