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

Featuring over 200 color photos, this boom is a visual journey through Black history and the Civil Rights Movement that explores objects designed by activists as tools for justice and freedom. It offers a unique perspective from Emancipation to the present day. 

Objects like buttons, flyers, pins, and posters have been key in the fight against racism, oppression, and violence during decades of sit-ins, marches, legal challenges, political campaigns, boycotts, and demonstrations. The book presents these nonviolent weapons alongside the stories of activists, organizations, and campaigns that defined the cause of civil rights.