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Medgar Evers 1954 Fight For Freedom NAACP Mississippi Black Civil Rights P1459
Medgar Evers 1954 Fight For Freedom NAACP Mississippi Black Civil Rights P1459

Medgar Evers 1954 Fight For Freedom NAACP Mississippi Black Civil Rights P1459

$ 633.07

Availability: 70 in stock
  • Students For Democratic Soceity: SDS
  • Value 3: Nation Of Islam
  • Theme: Political
  • Value 2: Malcolm X
  • Value 8: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP
  • Black Power Movement: Black Liberation Movement
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Value 6: Freedom Riders
  • Value 14: Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
  • Value 1: Martin Luther King Jr
  • Material: Metal & Paper
  • Country/Region: United States
  • Type: Button
  • Black Civil Rights: Civil Rights Movement
  • Value 12: Black Panther Party
  • Original: Authentic
  • Value 11: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
  • Martin Luther King: SNCC
  • Modified Item: No
  • Value 15: Civil Rights Movement
  • Value 5: Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
  • Year: 1954
  • Value: Mississippi
  • Condition: Pinback button measures 2" inches. Please note that there is some reflection in the digital image due to the background window light reflecting off the shiny surface. See item description and photos for further details.
  • Signed: No

    Description

    DETAILS:
    Original pinback button issued by the
    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
    (NAACP) for their
    Fight For Freedom
    (FFF) desegregation campaign in the Southern United States. Circa 1954. Measures 1 1/2" inches. Rare.
    BACKGROUND:
    In 1954 the NAACP initiated the
    Fight for Freedom
    (FFF) campaign with the goal of abolishing segregation by 1963, the centennial of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The campaign was intended to be a more activist led approach at racial equality. It was primarily focused on the states of Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee and led by Medgar Evers, the newly appointed NAACP's first field Secretary for Mississippi. Under the campaign, Evers actively organized boycotts, voter registration drives and demonstrations to demand the end of segregation in the South. He was assassinated in Jackson MS in 1963 by white supremacists for his efforts.
    GUARANTEE:
    We offer a lifetime guarantee on all of our items to be authentic originals issued by the organization stated. They are not later re-issues or reproductions. We forensically examine all of our items prior to listing to make certain they are authentic.
    BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS
    Circa 1950-1970
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