Button declaring "Black is Beautiful"
- Manufactured by
- Unidentified
- Date
- 1960s - 1970s
- Medium
- metal and plastic
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm)
- Description
- Button with a black background and a yellow stripe at center. On the yellow stripe the words "Black is Beautiful" appear in block letters.
- Classification
- Memorabilia and Ephemera-Political and Activist Ephemera
- Movement
- Black is Beautiful
- Topic
- Activism
- Beauty culture
- Politics
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Dawn Simon Spears and Alvin Spears, Sr.
- Object number
- 2011.159.3.11
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible