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Title	Button, Wilmington Ten
Description	Button advocating on behalf of the Wilmington Ten. The button has a white background and black text reading, "FREE THE WILMINGTON TEN." The center of the button shows an image of Ben Chavis, one of the Wilmington Ten.
Subject (tgm)	Buttons (Information artifacts) Activists Political prisoners Protest movements
Subject Name	Chavis, Ben, 1948-
Subject Geographic	Wilmington (N.C.)
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Notes	This pin refers to the 1971 conviction and imprisonment of ten people in Wilmington, North Carolina who had been arrested on charges of arson and conspiracy following the burning of a grocery store. Several prosecution witnesses later recanted their testimony, and a federal court overturned all the convictions in 1980. Governor Beverly Perdue pardoned the surviving members of the Wilmington Ten in 2012.
Form	Buttons (Information artifacts)
Digital Collection	Lew Powell
Repository	North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Host	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Citation	North Carolina Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Button, Wilmington Ten

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