"SAVE HOSTOS" button
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1976-1978
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
diameter: 1 1/2 in. ( 3.8 cm )
Description:
Circular yellow pin-back button with black lettering: "SAVE HOSTOS!/SAVE HOSTOS COMMITTEE."
Credit Line:
Gift of Gerald Meyer
Object Number:
2000.36
Gallery Label:
Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College, a junior college of the City University of New York, opened in 1968 at 475 Grand Concourse in the Bronx as the first branch of the university deliberately placed in an economically depressed area. This button refers to efforts to save the school's emphasis on bilingual education.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1978
eMuseum Object ID:
41467
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pin-back button
Classification:
Date:
1960-1970
Medium:
Metal, plastic
Dimensions:
diameter: 2 1/4 in. ( 5.7 cm )
Description:
Circular pin-back button: "YOUNG/PROGRESSIVES/ Jim Crow must go. Repeal/Taft-Hartley. Free the/Trenton Six. Free the/Foley Square '12'. End the/Cold War. Stop the Martial/Plan. On the Job Training./ End college quotas. end/the Draft--NO UMT. A/National FEPC. Support/the U.N. End the Poll Tax./End Colonialism. $1 an/hour minimum wage."; image of a dove carrying an olive branch in its beak within a circle in the center; red, black and white.
Credit Line:
Gift of Marilyn Lutzker
Object Number:
2000.59
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1970
eMuseum Object ID:
41447
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
2000.58
Classification:
Dimensions:
diameter: 1 1/4 in. ( 3.2 cm )
Description:
"BOYCOTT/BRITAIN"
Black and white pin
Credit Line:
Gift of Marilyn Lutzker
Object Number:
2000.58
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
41446
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
2000.57
Classification:
Dimensions:
diameter: 1 1/2 in. ( 3.8 cm )
Description:
"carey/Krupsak"
Blue and white pin
Credit Line:
Gift of Marilyn Lutzker
Object Number:
2000.57
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
41445
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pin-back button
Classification:
Date:
1997
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 1/4 in. ( 5.7 cm )
Description:
Circular metal pin-back button "RIGHT/DECISIONS/RIGHT/NOW"; yellow and black.
Credit Line:
Gift of Marilyn Lutzker
Object Number:
2000.55
Gallery Label:
Founded in 1997, Partners for Youth Sports Foundation, Inc., works to provide at-risk inner-city youth the best chance possible to succeed in life by advancing their personal development through an educational and fun sports and character building learning experience.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1997
eMuseum Object ID:
41444
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pin-back button
Classification:
Date:
1972
Dimensions:
diameter: 1 3/4 in. ( 4.4 cm )
Description:
"QUEENS FOR McGOVERN"
Red and white
Credit Line:
Gift of Marilyn Lutzker
Object Number:
2000.54
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1972
eMuseum Object ID:
41443
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
2000.52
Classification:
Dimensions:
diameter: 1 1/4 in. ( 3.2 cm )
Description:
"MARCH/FOR/DEMOCRATIC/SCHOOLS/May 18/CORE-NAACP"
Black letters and white background
Credit Line:
Gift of Marilyn Lutzker
Object Number:
2000.52
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
41441
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
2000.53
Classification:
Dimensions:
diameter: 1 1/2 in. ( 3.8 cm )
Description:
"I BELONG/McGOVERN/MMM/MILLION-MEMBER CLUB/HOW ABOUT/YOU?"
Red, white and blue
Credit Line:
Gift of Marilyn Lutzker
Object Number:
2000.53
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
41442
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
2000.50
Classification:
Dimensions:
diameter: 1 1/2 in. ( 3.8 cm )
Description:
"TOUGH/ENOUGH/TO CARE/DOROTHY/PAM/FOR/ASSEMBLY"
Blue and white pin
Credit Line:
Gift of Marilyn Lutzker
Object Number:
2000.50
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
41439
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
2000.51
Classification:
Dimensions:
diameter: 1 1/2 in. ( 3.8 cm )
Description:
"West Queens/needs/DOROTHY/PAM/FOR/State Senate"
Blue and white pin
Credit Line:
Gift of Marilyn Lutzker
Object Number:
2000.51
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
41440
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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