- Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs
- Title:
- ACT-UP die-in in front of Grady Hospital, protesting the six-month waiting list of AIDS patients to beds at the hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, May 7, 1991.
- Creator:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Date of Original:
- 1991-05-07
- Subject:
- AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Services for
AIDS activists
Gay activists
Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.)
ACT UP Atlanta (Organization) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Newspaper assignment sheet attached to print verso: Grady Memorial Hospital [...] a cutline-only photograph on a demonstration at Grady's AIDS clinic. ACT-UP, a group of AIDS activists, will protest a lack of funding and a six-month waiting list. I am doing a takeout to run later on. CONTACT NAME: Jeff Graham [...] CAPTION: AIDS activist ACT-UP protest in front of Grady hospital due to the six-month waiting list of patients to beds at the hospital. The person holding the sign in the foreground in Romeo D'nae." Newspaper caption: "Activists for AIDS treatment. Chanting 'six months equals death,' AIDS activists on Tuesday protest the six-month waiting list for appointments at Grady Memorial Hospital's AIDS clinic. The protesters want the clinic to expand. Hospital officials said that the caseload has increased beyond Grady's capacity to respond -- from two patients in 1986 to about 1,300 visits every month." Date-stamped "Wed May 08 1991 J/C." Sing in front reads "Support the Infectious Disease Clinic. Expand it now!"
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/3337
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/ajc:3337/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: AJCP178-017g, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
