Campaign Button

Object/Artifact

Berkeley Historical Society & Museum

Name/Title

Campaign Button

Entry/Object ID

2013.019.011

Description

Round, pink/orange, metal and paper campaign button: "Vote JERRY RUBIN Mayor --A New Community". Around the edge: "withdraw from Vietnam, rent control, end police harassment, eliminate poverty". Jerry Rubin (b:1938 d:1994) ran for mayor in 1967 and received 20% of the vote. He was a high-profile social activist in the 60's (radicalized by the Vietnam antiwar protests, supported black power and was a founding member of the Youth International Party i.e. Yippies, along with Abbie Hoffman.) He appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee, used guerilla theatre and out of the 1968 Democratic National Convention became one of the Chicago Eight (Seven) in 1969. He retired from politics and became a businessman and author in the 1970's.

Made/Created

Date made

1967

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Button, Campaign

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Button, Political

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Symbol, Political

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Belief Symbols

Nomenclature Class

Personal Symbols

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Dimensions

Diameter

1-1/2 in

Location

Other

A5-8