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  • Button, white supremacy
  • Button advocating for white supremacy. The button has a red background and cream-colored text reading: "WHITE / SUPREMACY." Dimensions: 22 mm in diameter.
  • White Supremacy was a political movement present before the Civil War and expanding in the Reconstruction era based on the belief that people of the white race are superior to all other races. This button is from the watershed 1898 campaign in...
  • Lew Powell Collection
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  • Button, anti-KKK, 1980
  • Button protesting a Ku Klux Klan rally in Greensboro. The button has a yellow background and red text reading: "Feb. 2, 1980 / Greensboro, N.C. / STOP / the / KKK!" Dimensions: 54 mm in diameter.
  • The rally was most likely in response to the November 3, 1979 "Death to the Klan" march in Greensboro, North Carolina, led by members of the Communist Workers Party, who were trying to organize African-American industrial workers. Five marchers...
  • Lew Powell Collection
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  • Button, Furnifold Simmons campaign
  • Button for Furnifold Simmons Election Campaign. Button includes photo of Simmons in center and black text reading: "FOR SENATOR / THE CHIEFTAN / OF WHITE SUPREMACY." Dimensions: 25 mm in diameter.
  • Furnifold Simmons was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1887 to 1889, and U.S. senator from 1901 to 1931. As Chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party, he led the 1898-1900 "White Supremacy" campaigns to...
  • Lew Powell Collection
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  • Flyer, Committee to Avenge the Greensboro Communist Workers' Party Five, 1980
  • Black-and-white poster protesting the Ku Klux Klan. Text reads "REMEMBER GREENSBORO / DEATH TO THE KLAN!" and "Feb 8, 7.30, SF / Feb 9, 7 pm / Oakland" The poster has an image of five people on the left.
  • These rallies in San Francisco and Oakland, California in February 1980 were held to raise funds for legal expenses for families of five Communist Workers Party members who were killed and ten who were wounded by Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi...
  • Lew Powell Collection

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