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Pinback Button, "I Love Fisk"

3 pp

This pinback button proclaims love for Fisk University, an historically Black university located in Nashville, Tennessee. The button, sporting the school’s emblematic blue and gold, belonged to journalist Ethel L. Payne (1911-1991). Fisk honored Payne with an endowed professorship named for another pioneering journalist and activist, the Ida B. Wells Chair in Journalism and Mass Communication. As

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Pinback Button, "Jesse Cares"

4 pp

This pinback button supported Rev. Jesse L. Jackson’s historic run for president in 1983-1984. Jackson broke ground first trod by Shirley Chisolm, becoming the second African American to run nationally for a major party’s nomination in a presidential primary. The white-and-blue button’s message matches its simple design: “Jesse Cares.” The button belonged to journalist Ethel L. Payne (1911-1991),

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Pinback Button, "President Reagan"

4 pp

This pinback button endorsed Ronald Reagan for president, though its owner did not. The red, white, and blue button belonged to political reporter Ethel L. Payne (1911-1991), who collected campaign memorabilia. A Chicago native, Payne moved to the nation’s capital in 1952 to cover national and international news for the preeminent African American newspaper, The Chicago Defender. Over the course o

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Pinback Button, "The Platform"

3 pp

This pinback button sports a quotation from President Harry Truman that reemerged decades later as major political parties developed their platforms for the 1976 and 1980 presidential campaigns. The white-and-blue button belonged to journalist Ethel L. Payne (1911-1991), who collected political memorabilia. A Chicago native, Payne moved to the nation’s capital in 1952 to cover national and interna

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Pinback Button, "We '8" Um Up"

3 pp

This pinback button celebrates the election of Harold Washington, the first African American mayor of Chicago, in 1983. A diverse coalition of voters “punched eight” for Washington, the eighth candidate on the ballot in the primary. “We ‘8’ Um Up” playfully exults in victory. The white-and-blue button belonged to journalist Ethel L. Payne (1911-1991), a Chicago native who moved to Washington, DC i

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Pinback Button, "Working Press Pass" Worn By Ethel L. Payne

3 pp

Ethel L. Payne (1911-1991) wore this press pass to cover the inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower for The Chicago Defender, the nation’s leading African American newspaper. The blue-and-white button admitted Payne to the inauguration ceremony on January 20, 1953 and to related events. Payne also attended an inaugural ball held the following evening at the D.C. National Guard Armory, whic

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Pinback Button, “DC Make a Date for ‘88”

4 pp

This pinback button urged Washington, DC residents to vote in 1988, a presidential election year heightened by the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson’s name on the ballot in the primary. In 1984, Jackson became the second African American to campaign nationally for a major party’s nomination in the presidential primary. The red, white, and royal-blue button belonged to Ethel L. Payne (1911-1991), a longtime Di

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Pinback Button, “Sounds Like Bull Shit to Me”

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This pinback button’s design is as plain as its message, “sounds like Bull Shit to me.” On a white background, four lines of lettering alternate between red and black. The button belonged to Ethel L. Payne (1911-1991), a journalist whose piercing questions called out racial and gender discrimination, among other inequities. Known as the First Lady of the Black Press, Payne moved from her native Ch

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Pinback Button, “Vote the Rascals Out”

3 pp

On this yellow pinback button, a line-drawn cartoon depicts a smiling figure wearing a sandwich board that reads “Vote the Rascals Out.” The barefoot figure, the sandwich board’s straps and back placard, and row homes in the background are all rendered in red. Bold, yellow letters glow against the black of the sandwich board’s front placard. Sandwich boards, or large placards worn by a person who

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Pinback Button, “Washington’s No 1 Crew,”

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This pinback button promotes “Washington’s No. 1 Crew” in red lettering and four red stars on a white background. It belonged to journalist Ethel L. Payne, (1911-1991), who moved from Chicago to Washington, DC in 1952 to cover national and international news for the preeminent African American newspaper, The Chicago Defender. Known as The First Lady of the Black Press, Payne collected political bu

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Pineapple Tin Punch

8 pp

16 1/4 × 11 × 1 1/2 in. (41.2 × 28 × 3.8 cm)

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Pink Orchid Cross-Stitch

4 pp

Pink orchids bloom in a blue pot on this cross-stitch bordered in brown. Invoking the conventions of still-life paintings, a single flower has fallen off the plant in a memento mori. Between the detached blossom and the three still clinging to their stem is the Chinese character for good fortune, “fú”. These details, deftly rendered in an index card-sized space, reflect artist Ira Blount’s (1918-2

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Pinback Button, “DC Make a Date for ‘88”

Pinback Button, “Sounds Like Bull Shit to Me”

Pinback Button, “Vote the Rascals Out”

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Pineapple Tin Punch

Pink Orchid Cross-Stitch