"UNCLE SAM CAN COUNT ON ME" TWO HANDS DOUBLE "V" FOR VICTORY & CIVIL RIGHTS USED FOR BUTTON POWER
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Winning Bid:
$408.34
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Wednesday, February 24, 2021 9:00:00 PM)
Item Description
1.25" no maker. The Double V campaign was started Feb. 7, 1942 by the Pittsburgh Courier, the nation's largest circulation African-American newspaper. The slogan was prompted by a response to a letter asking "Should I Sacrifice To Live 'Half American?'" written by 26-year-old reader James G. Thompson. The campaign was also in response to Franklin D. Roosevelt's encouragement to five editors of the top black newspapers in the United States to reduce their discontent and apathy to the war; their discontent remained, but the editors endorsed the two pronged approach of the Double V Campaign: Victory overseas and victory over inequality at home. This is the button photographed for page 173 of the book Button Power by Carter/Hake. Rare and essentially Mint. Comes with Hake's COA.
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