Pinback button promoting reparations for the Tulsa Race Massacre

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Manufactured by: Unidentified
Owned by: Gates, Eddie Faye, American, 1934 - 2021

Date: ca. 2001

Medium: ink on paper, plastic, metal
Dimensions: H x W x D: 1 3/4 × 1 3/4 × 5/16 in. (4.4 × 4.4 × 0.8 cm)

Description: A red pinback button with white lettering centered in the middle that reads “REPARATIONS / NOW! / GREENWOOD / CULTURAL CENTER / TULSA, OK.”

Place depicted: Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America

Collection title: Eddie Faye Gates Collection, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Classification: Memorabilia and Ephemera-Political and Activist Ephemera

Type: buttons (information artifacts)

Topic: Activism; American South; American West; Economics; Justice; Race relations; Tulsa Race Massacre; United States History

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Eddie Faye Gates, Tulsa OK, author, historian, community activist

Object number: 2014.117.2

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions; Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.

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Pinback button promoting reparations for the Tulsa Race Massacre