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- "Save Pepe" Peace Sticker, 2017 - Pepe the Frog--created by Matt Furie--first appeared in the digital comic, "Boy's Club." The anthropomorphic frog subsequently became a popular Internet meme. In 2015, alt-right and white nationalist groups misappropriated Pepe, causing the Anti-Defamation League to designate him as a hate symbol. Furie and the ADL formed the #SavePepe campaign to end the misuse of Pepe by others.
- 2017
- Collections - Artifact
"Save Pepe" Peace Sticker, 2017
Pepe the Frog--created by Matt Furie--first appeared in the digital comic, "Boy's Club." The anthropomorphic frog subsequently became a popular Internet meme. In 2015, alt-right and white nationalist groups misappropriated Pepe, causing the Anti-Defamation League to designate him as a hate symbol. Furie and the ADL formed the #SavePepe campaign to end the misuse of Pepe by others.
- "Black is Beautiful," 1969 -
- 1969
- Collections - Artifact
"Black is Beautiful," 1969
- Boy's Denim Jacket Customized with Patches, circa 1973 -
- circa 1973
- Collections - Artifact
Boy's Denim Jacket Customized with Patches, circa 1973
- Peace Symbol Pendant Necklace, Worn by Kathy Duquette, 1970-1975 - The "peace sign" was first designed in 1958 as part of the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. By the late 1960s and 1970s, the symbol -- shown on this necklace -- came to mean that the wearer was an opponent of the Vietnam War. Ultimately, the peace sign came to represent opposition to war in general.
- 1970-1975
- Collections - Artifact
Peace Symbol Pendant Necklace, Worn by Kathy Duquette, 1970-1975
The "peace sign" was first designed in 1958 as part of the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. By the late 1960s and 1970s, the symbol -- shown on this necklace -- came to mean that the wearer was an opponent of the Vietnam War. Ultimately, the peace sign came to represent opposition to war in general.
- Jacket with Peace Symbol Buttons, 1967-1973 -
- 1967-1973
- Collections - Artifact
Jacket with Peace Symbol Buttons, 1967-1973
- Button, Peace Sign Shaped Holiday Wreath, circa 1991 -
- circa 1991
- Collections - Artifact
Button, Peace Sign Shaped Holiday Wreath, circa 1991
- "May Christmas Bring You Love," 1970 - Hip Products, a Chicago-based company, produced and distributed black light posters, cards, and other materials -- incense, candles, pipes, etc. -- in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This Christmas card glows in ultraviolet light produced by a black light. The card's design, sentiment, and the envelope's peace symbol embodied the youth-infused counterculture movement of the period.
- 1970
- Collections - Artifact
"May Christmas Bring You Love," 1970
Hip Products, a Chicago-based company, produced and distributed black light posters, cards, and other materials -- incense, candles, pipes, etc. -- in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This Christmas card glows in ultraviolet light produced by a black light. The card's design, sentiment, and the envelope's peace symbol embodied the youth-infused counterculture movement of the period.