A button celebrating women’s rights in Philadelphia on July 18, 1987. This button was distributed as part of the “Torch for Equality” event to call for adding women to the U.S. Constitution.

A purple hat, one of the primary colors of the women’s suffrage movement, honoring the centennial of the 19th Amendment in 2020.

A button promoting the campaign of Barbara Timmer, who ran for Vice President of the National Organization for women in 1982.

A button honoring educators from the collection of Martha Wheelock, a longtime women’s studies teacher.

A button produced in 1989 to honor twenty years after the Stonewall gay rights protest. The button was produced to honor Chicago’s Gay & Lesbian Pride Week. A retrospective of Chicago pride events is available here.

An undated button from the women’s liberation movement.

A button for Kay Weaver’s film, One Fine Day. This film was first produced by Wild West Films and created by Kay Weaver and Martha Wheelock in 1984.

A button produced in 1992 titled “Pride Equals Power” in honor of the Gay & Lesbian pride event in Chicago that year.

A button produced in 1995 in the city of Chicago honoring pride. The theme that year was From Silence: To Celebration.

An undated button from the women’s liberation movement.

An undated button supporting lesbian families.

An undated button from the women’s liberation movement.

A button honoring Susan B. Anthony who was arrested for voting in November 1872. This button was created for the Long Beach Women’s Fair and distributed to recognize women voters in November 2024.

Women Win the Vote poster, published by the National Women’s History Alliance to protect women’s history in schools

A button distributed in 1988 by the National Organization for Women for their conference that year. The button notes important years for the women’s rights movement including 1848 (Seneca Falls Convention) and 1923 (when the Equal Rights Amendment was first proposed in Seneca Falls by Alice Paul).

A button distributed in favor of the organization created by Sonia Johnson, Mormons for ERA. Mormons for ERA was prominent in the early 1980s during the struggle to ratify the amendment. Their political work was especially notable in Utah and in Illinois in the summer of 1982 before the amendment expired.

A button in favor of the Vice Presidential campaign for the leader of NOW, Ginny Foat, a prominent women’s rights activist in the Los Angeles area in the 1980s.

Women Writers’ Suffrage League poster

A fan honoring Susan B. Anthony celebrating women’s right to vote. Created for the Long Beach Women’s Fair in 2024.

A fan celebrating the centennial of women’s right to vote

An undated button from the women’s liberation movement.

An undated button from the women’s liberation movement distributed by the National Organization for Women

An undated button from the women’s liberation movement distributed by the National Organization for Women