Description: OFFERED FOR SALE IS THIS 1 1/2 INCH CELLULOID PINBACK BUTTON IN WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE REALLY GREAT SHAPE. HOWEVER, THAT IS JUST MY OPINION. SEE PHOTOS FOR CONDITION, AND YOU BE THE JUDGE. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT ME BEFORE BIDDING OR BUYING. RETURNS ARE NOT ACCEPTED UNLESS THE ITEM IS NOT AS DESCRIBED OR AS SHOWN IN THE PHOTOS.GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC AND ORIGINAL AS DESCRIBED. Check out my other Political and Social Protest and Cause items! I COMBINE SHIPPING CHARGES FOR MULTIPLE ITEMS. PLEASE WAIT FOR OR REQUEST AN INVOICE WITH COMBINED SHIPPING CHARGE BEFORE PAYING. This pin was issued and sold circa 1967 - 1968 to raise funds and support for a campaign to run Dr. Martin Luther King and Dr. Benjamin Sock for President and Vice President as third party candidates, and thereby combine the civil rights and anti Viet Nam war movements.The pin, in psychedelic lettering reads: INDEPENDENT POLITICAL ACTION AGAINST THE WAR KING SPOCK IN '68. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE In 1967 with both the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement in full swing, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., briefly considered launching a presidential campaign on a third-party ticket with Dr. Benjamin Spock, the noted pediatrician and the author of the bestseller Dr. Spock’s Baby and Childcare. Spock had risen to fame in the 1940s with his guidance on raising children, but by the 1960s, he was one of the leading anti Vietnam War demonstrators in the country. Yale University Chaplain William Sloan Coffin, Allard Lowenstein, then an activist and college professor, and Norman Thomas, a minister and socialist, actively recruited King to run with Spock on a third-party ticket for the 1968 presidential election. Thomas, who was a co-founder of the ACLU, had worked for years very closely with King. “He is one of the bravest men I ever met,” King said of Thomas.This cause - protest pinback button pin or badge relates to the Hippie (or Hippy) Counterculture Movement of the psychedelic Sixties (1960's) and Seventies (1970's). That movement included such themes and topics as peace, protest, civil rights, radical, socialist, communist, anarchist, drugs, marijuana, pot, weed, lsd, acid, sds, anti draft, anti war, anti rotc, welfare rights, poverty, equal rights, integration, gay, women's rights, black panthers, black power, left wing, liberal, and progressive political movements.THIS IS MY HOBBY AND IS NOT A BUSINESS. THIS AND OTHER ITEMS LISTED ON EBAY ARE FROM MY PERSONAL COLLECTIONS AND WERE NOT ACQUIRED BY ME FOR RESALE. PROCEEDS GO TO BUY OTHER STUFF I AM INTERESTED IN COLLECTING. I AM A LONG TIME MEMBER OF A. P. I .C. (AMERICAN POLITICAL ITEMS COLLECTORS). IF YOU ARE NOT A MEMBER, YOU SHOULD CONSIDER JOINING. IT IS A GREAT ORGANIZATION! SHIPPING TO DESTINATIONS WITHIN THE UNITED STATES IS BY USPS GROUND ADVANTAGE. CHARGE IS $5.50 OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES, SHIPPING IS BY EBAY'S INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING PROGRAM. EBAY SETS THE CHARGES AND TERMS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST.
Price: 47.5 USD
Location: Ojai, California
End Time: 2024-09-02T01:29:11.000Z
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