Women's Liberation

Women's Liberation Cause Button Museum
Category
Cause
Political
Additional Images
Women's Liberation button back Cause Button Museum
Sub Categories
Illustrations
Women's Rights
Civil Rights
Image Description

White background with red Women's Liberation logo
Curl Text Illegible number
Back Style
Unlocking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
1 1/4 inch
Year / Decade Made
1960s
1969
Additional Information

Robin Morgan designed this button for the 1969 Miss America Pageant protest. There are many versions of similar buttons.  The color of the symbol, now synonymous with the Women's Rights Movement, is "menstrual red." Morgan selected the name out of concern that the cosmetics company sponsoring the pageant would use the red color to sell lipstick. 
Sources

Freeman, J. (1974). Say it with buttons. Retrieved from http://www.jofreeman.com/buttons/saybuttons.htm.(Original work published in Ms.​).
Catalog ID CA0040