2-1/8". N.G. Slater on curl at 12 o'clock. In 1958 and 1958 marches were organized by A. Phillip Randolph with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. serving as an honorary chairman. Other honorary chairman involved in these marches, aimed at unifying student movements in the North with those in the South to fight for integrated schools, included Roy Wilkins, Ralph Bunche, Jackie Robinson, and Daisy Bates. This button is likely from the first march in 1958. The reference at the bottom is to a 1957 civil rights Bill proposed by Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois. Though Martin Luther King was instrumental in organizing this event he was not among the 10,000 marchers who traveled down Constitution Ave. arriving at the Lincoln Memorial. He was in the hospital recovering from a stab wound suffered in New York earlier that year. Coretta Scott King spoke in his place. Light surface wear including tiny hairline scratches seen in reflected light. Exc. displaying Mint. A truly rare and spectacular cultural relic from an event often overlooked in the history on the civil rights movement.