Pinback button opposing desegregation and equal rights for African Americans, c. 1963.
The rising tide of opposition to Jim Crow in the early 1960s provoked an inevitable backlash from whites who wished to preserve what they called "the Southern way of life" (code for segregation). Their answer to the pleas of demonstrators in the streets and "meddling" politicians in Washington was succinct: NEVER! They wore buttons like this one.