William Averell Harriman sought the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1952 but lost to Adlai E. Stevenson. He became Governor of New York in 1954, and in 1956 he atempted to run against Stevenson again but was unsuccessful. He ran for re-election as Governor but lost to Nelson D. Rockefeller in 1958.

This button could have been worn during any one of George C. Wallace's four bids for the Presidency between 1964 to 1976.

William O'Dwyer won the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City in 1941 but was defeated in the general election by Fiorello H. La Guardia. He was elected mayor in 1945 as the candidate of the Democratic and American Labor parties. In 1949, Vincent R. Impellitteri became the acting mayor of New York City after the resignation of Mayor William O'Dwyer in 1950.

Herbert H. Lehman was elected governer from 1932 to 1938. In 1949 he became a U.S. Senator for New York State.

Vito Marcantonio won New York City's mayoral candidacy for the American Labor Party in 1949.

This button was probably worn during one of George McGovern's runs for senate between 1960 and 1974.

Biafra was a battle for independence waged by the Ibo tribe in eastern Nigeria. It was also a war for control of the oil-rich lands in Biafra by the Nigerian government and the western world. In the end, the war cost the lives of more than one million Biafrans.

The mission of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is to improve the lives of working families¿to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to the nation. This button was worn in protest of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).