Making the Movement: How Activists Fought for Civil Rights with Buttons, Flyers, Pins, and Posters

Packed with over 200 color photos, this visual journey through Black history and the Civil Rights Movement is told through the objects—buttons, badges, flyers, pennants, posters, and more—designed by activists as tools to advance the fight for justice and freedom, offering a unique perspective on the Civil Rights Movement from Emancipation through the present day.

From Reconstruction through Jim Crow, through the protest era of the 1960s and '70s, to current-day resistance and activism such...