Martin Luther King 1963 Chicago Boycott Strike South Side SNCC Civil Rights CORE For Sale

DETAILS: Original pinback button issued by the Chicago chapter of The Friends of SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) and the South Side CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) for the 1963 boycott strike of segregated businesses in Downtown Chicago.Circa 1963. Reads: Stop, Don't Shop Downtown. We have searched numerous databases spanning 30 years and have only been able to locate one other example of this button. Scarce.
BACKGROUND: The Chicago chapter of Friends of SNCC was founded by Fannie Rushing and Monroe Sharp.In 1963, they formed an alliance with members ofSouth SideCORE to organize aboycott of white businesses in downtown Chicago who refused to hirelacks and engaged in different forms of racial segregations. It was intended to be modeled on the methods that SNCC had utilized the previous year in Alabama and Mississippi with some success.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 them to make certain they are authentic and guarantee there authenticity for the lifetime of the item.

BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS

Circa 1950-1970

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