Resonant Prepare for BLACK AUTUMN, c. 1960s Large Pinback Button collectible art book with variation among the rich

with variation among the rich blues that makes one want to keep them all together

all stained black but for the pink nose

rectangular recessed frame and  black stencil painted 80 on one side reminds me of a cubist painting

And I think it's become all the better with age

14" across at arm

Resonant Prepare for BLACK AUTUMN, c. 1960s Large Pinback Button collectible art book with variation among the richI have done a fair bit of searching but have not placed the precise origins of this pinback button, though I am quite confident 1960s and presume Civil Rights connected. (With the font used for "Black Autumn" very close to the that used for the now iconic " I Am a Man" posters of the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike.) Found now, out of time and place, it seems to me to resonate all the more broadly, invoking everything from the November elections and