Buttons

• Jamaica, NY

• 1984-2000

Buttons from Jesse Jackson's run for president in 1984; Al Sharpton's run in 1994; and from the Million Women March in 1997 and Million Family March in 2000, patterned after the Million Man March in 1990.

Notes: I found the buttons from the marches in Umi's Archive and the buttons for Jackson and Sharpton in my grandmother's archive. Placing them together made an interesting image that led to a provocative question: Electoral politics and marches — is this all we have in the wake of Black Power?