button, Free Our People

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Object Details

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unknown

Description (Brief)

NMAH has several hundred pin-back buttons related to disability, including this one from ADAPT. ADAPT is a grass-roots activist organization founded in Denver, Colorado in 1983. “Free Our People” expresses their belief that people with disabilities should be able to live in the community rather than in nursing homes or institutions. The man is the Rev. Wade Blank, a civil rights activist and the founder of ADAPT. Blank became a disability activist after working as an orderly in a nursing home where he witnessed the mistreatment and poor care of people with disabilities.

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

gift of Janine Kemp Bertram

date made

n.d.

ID Number

2004.3062.14

nonaccession number

2004.3062

catalog number

2004.3062.14

Object Name

button

disability awareness

Physical Description

plastic (overall material)

metal (overall material)

Measurements

overall: 2 3/16 in x 2 3/16 in x 5/16 in; 5.55625 cm x 5.55625 cm x .79375 cm

overall: 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; .635 cm x 5.715 cm

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Data Source

National Museum of American History

Subject