Object Details
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- 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
- n.d.
- ID Number
- 2004.3062.14
- nonaccession number
- 2004.3062
- catalog number
- 2004.3062.14
- Object Name
- pin
- 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
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Disabilities
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Disabilities
- Protest and Civil Disobedience
- Record ID
- nmah_1277156
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-8099-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
