1970 SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY SWP New York High School Rights Communist Cause Pin for Sale

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1970 SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY SWP New York High School Rights Communist Cause Pin For Sale

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1970 SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY SWP New York High School Rights Communist Cause Pin:
$14.95

OFFERED FOR SALE IS THIS 1 3/ INCH CELLULOID PINBACK BUTTON IN WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE NICE SHAPE. HOWEVER, THAT IS JUST MY OPINION. SEE PHOTOS FOR CONDITION, AND YOU BE THE JUDGE.

NOTE: THERE IS A SMALL CELLULOID \"PULL\" AS MADE AT ABOUT 3 O\'CLOCK IN IMAGE OF THE FRONT OF THE PIN AND AT ABOUT 9 O\'CLOCK IN IMAGE OF THE BACK OF THE PIN, where the celluloid was not secured under the metal collet. As you can see, it is barely noticeable, especially when viewed from the front. r.

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This pin was issued and sold in 1970 in the State of New York by the Socialist Workers Party, in connection with its campaigns there for congressional, state and local offices.

The SWP was very active in the Student Rights Movement, including on High School Campuses, with there apparently being about 275,000 students.

The pin reads: Free the N.Y. 275,000! Fight for High School Rights Socialist Workers in \'70.

The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a communist partyin the United States. Originally a faction in the Communist Party USA thatsupported Leon Trotsky against Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, it places apriority on \"solidarity work\" to aid strikes and is stronglysupportive of Cuba. The SWP publishes The Militant, a weekly newspaper thatdates back to 1928. It also maintains Pathfinder Press.The SWP supported both the civil rights movement and the blacknationalist movement that grew during the 1960s. It particularly praisedthe militancy of black nationalist leader Malcolm X, who in turn spokeat the SWP\'s public forums and gave an interview to Young Socialist magazine.

The SWP provided a political ideology for African Americans seekingequality in the early 20th century. Black nationalists were in favor ofsocialist policy and ideas. During the 1960s, the SWP had begun selectingAfrican American candidates on their presidential ticket. The SWP hoped tochange American values and ensure each citizen had equal rights under thelaw. \"Many black nationalists turned to the Socialist Workers Partybecause the SWP proposed that its black members collaborate with other militantAfrican Americans,\" according to a group of historians studying the publicservice of African Americans.

The SWP & YSA were also recognized as a major factor influencing thedirection of the antiwar movement along these lines. One of the leadersof the antiwar movement at this time, along with Dave Dellinger and manyothers, was Fred Halstead, a World War II veteran and formerleader of the garment workers union in New York City. Halstead was the 1968presidential candidate of the SWP and visited Vietnam in that capacity. The SWP was alsoincreasingly outspoken in its defense of the Castro government and itsidentification with that government

This underground pinback button pin or badge relates to the Hippie (or Hippy ) Counterculture Movement of the psychedelic Sixties (1960s and Seventies (1970s). That movement included such themes and topics as peace, protest, civil rights, radical, socialist, communist, anarchist, union labor strikes, drugs, marijuana, pot, weed, lsd, acid, sds, iww, anti draft, anti war, anti rotc, welfare rights, poverty, equal rights, integration, gay, women\'s rights, black panthers, black power, left wing, liberal, etc. progressive political movement and is guaranteed to be genuine as described.

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Moreover their presence in Southeastern Louisiana meant that the Klan would no longer be able to intimidate and terrorize local African Americans without challenge. The strategy and methods that the Deacons employed attracted the attention and concern of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which authorized an investigation into the group’s activities. The investigation stalled, however, when more influential black power organizations such as US and the Black Panther Party emerged after the 1965 Watts Riot. With public attention, and the attention of the FBI focused elsewhere, the Deacons lost most of their notoriety and slowly declined in influence. By 1968 they were all but extinct. In 2003 the activities of the Deacons was the subject of a 2003, “Deacons for Defense.” - See more at: July 10, 1964, a group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana led by Earnest “Chilly Willy” Thomas and Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick founded the group known as The Deacons for Defense and Justice to protect members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) against Ku Klux Klan violence. Most of the “Deacons” were veterans of World War II and the Korean War. The Jonesboro chapter organized its first affiliate chapter in nearby Bogalusa, Louisiana led by Charles Sims, A.Z. Young and Robert Hicks. Eventually they organized a third chapter in Louisiana. The Deacons tense confrontation with the Klan in Bogalusa was crucial in forcing the federal government to intervene on behalf of the local African American community. The national attention they garnered also persuaded state and national officials to initiate efforts to neutralize the Klan in that area of the Deep South. The Deacons emerged as one of the first visible self-defense forces in the South and as such represented a new face of the civil rights movement. Traditional civil rights organizations remained silent on them or repudiated their activities. They were effective however in providing protection for local African Americans who sought to register to vote and for white and black civil rights workers in the area. The Deacons, for example, provided security for the 1966 March Against Fear from Memphis to Jackson, Mississippi. Moreover their presence in Southeastern Louisiana meant that the Klan would no longer be able to intimidate and terrorize local African Americans without challenge. The strategy and methods that the Deacons employed attracted the attention and concern of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which authorized an investigation into the group’s activities. The investigation stalled, however, when more influential black power organizations such as US and the Black Panther Party emerged after the 1965 Watts Riot. With public attention, and the attention of the FBI focused elsewhere, the Deacons lost most of their notoriety and slowly declined in influence. By 1968 they were all but extinct. In 2003 the activities of the Deacons was the subject of a 2003, “Deacons for Defense.” - See more at: July 10, 1964, a group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana led by Earnest “Chilly Willy” Thomas and Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick founded the group known as The Deacons for Defense and Justice to protect members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) against Ku Klux Klan violence. Most of the “Deacons” were veterans of World War II and the Korean War. The Jonesboro chapter organized its first affiliate chapter in nearby Bogalusa, Louisiana led by Charles Sims, A.Z. Young and Robert Hicks. Eventually they organized a third chapter in Louisiana. The Deacons tense confrontation with the Klan in Bogalusa was crucial in forcing the federal government to intervene on behalf of the local African American community. The national attention they garnered also persuaded state and national officials to initiate efforts to neutralize the Klan in that area of the Deep South. - See more at: