Ohio “STRIKE! APRIL 26” SMC pin

This pin was used to promote support or participation in the 1968 strike for the attention of Ohio State University leadership. The protesters were calling attention to educational inequality, racial disparities, and police misconduct. A major motivator for the protest came after four black female students were kicked off a bus and harassed by campus police. The pin was made by the Student Mobilization Committee, an organization that makes pins and posters for a variety of different strikes and protests.