button, Sign 504, Handicapped Human Rights, ACCD

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From the online exhibition 'Whatever Happened to Polio?'

Object Details

maker

N. G. Slater Corp.

Description (Brief)

Pin-back buttons serve many purposes. They are efficient advertising vehicles, handy for fund-raising in support of a cause, concise statements of a person’s beliefs, a form of educational outreach, and convenient ice-breakers for conversation. NMAH has several hundred pin-back buttons related to disability, including this one created by ACCD, the American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities. Before the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 provided the core of legal protection for most people with disabilities. Disability activists organized protests and sit-ins to pressure the government into signing the regulations needed to implement the law. Joseph A. Califano, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare signed the regulations in 1977.

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

Gift of Carr Massi

date made

n.d.

ID Number

1999.0263.18

accession number

1999.0263

catalog number

1999.0263.18

Object Name

button

disability awareness

Physical Description

plastic (overall material)

metal (overall material)

Measurements

overall: 1/4 in x 3 in; .635 cm x 7.62 cm

overall: 3 in x 3 in x 5/16 in; 7.62 cm x 7.62 cm x .79375 cm

place made

United States: New York, New York City

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Medicine and Science: Medicine

Health & Medicine

Disabilities

Data Source

National Museum of American History

Subject